Custom Box for Vagrant

If you want to create a custom box for vagrant installation for PuPHPet with pre installed stuff, you have a lot of options but we will cover two of those.

#Packer

Homepage: https://www.packer.io/

 

Download

Open https://www.packer.io/downloads.html and get packer for Windows.

Extract content of downloaded archive to C:\packer

 

Packer templates for PuPHPet

Open https://github.com/puphpet/packer-templates and download repository

Extract content of downloaded archive to C:\packer\packer-templates

##Customize

Open C:\packer\packer-templates\ubuntu-14.04-x86_64\template.json with your editor and at builders array you could edit settings for type virtualbox-iso

(Basically change only disk_size if you need. Memory and cpus you could later increase in your vagrant configuration file.)

First of all, check if you get last ubuntu server version.

Open http://releases.ubuntu.com/trusty/ and locate ubuntu-14.04.[version]-server-amd64.iso

Copy link location and update it in iso_url setting.

Open http://releases.ubuntu.com/trusty/SHA256SUMS locate and copy checksum code for ubuntu-14.04.[version]-server-amd64.iso

Replace checksum on iso_checksum setting.

Preinstall

1. In top of template.json file, at the provisioners, scripts config, before scripts/zerodisk.sh add "scripts/preinstall.sh",

2. In C:\packer\packer-templates\ubuntu-14.04-x86_64\scripts create scripts/preinstall.sh

3. Open Command Prompt with Admin Rights and run C:\packer\packer.exe build -only=virtualbox-iso C:\packer\packer-templates\ubuntu-14.04-x86_64\template.json

A VirtualBox window will be oppened and starting configuration

4. When a login prompt in VirtualBox, just login with

user: vagrant
pass: vagrant

and wait build process to continue.

After done, you will see in Command Prompt:

Build 'virtualbox-iso' finished.

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> virtualbox-iso: 'virtualbox' provider box: packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box

5. Add new Box to Vagrant

vagrant box add packer-ubuntu64 C:\packer\packer-templates\ubuntu-14.04-x86_64\packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box

Where packer-ubuntu64 - name as you want

6. PuPHPet

Open https://puphpet.com/ and create your configuration

Save content of archive to F:\servers\project-name and open puphpet/config.yaml in your editor. Change box and box_url with packer-ubuntu64 or how you named when you added to vagrant with box add.

In F:\servers\project-name run vagrant up to start build your Virtual Machine.

Then enter in ssh mode with vagrant ssh