vagrant.md

Vagrant

If you don't find what you're looking for here, please see the official Vagrant docs for more information.

Typical workflow to build a Vagrant VM image

A simple workflow to build a VirtualBox VM for Vagrant would be:

$ bundle exec veewee vbox templates | grep -i ubuntu
$ bundle exec veewee vbox define 'mybuntubox' 'ubuntu-12.10-server-amd64'
$ bundle exec veewee vbox build 'mybuntubox'

For additional box building instructions, see the Veewee Basics and Definition Customization docs.

To build a VM for another provider, such as VMware Fusion, you'd use "fusion" instead of "vbox" in the above.

Export the VM image to a .box file

In order to use the box in Vagrant, we need to export the VM as a base box (e.g. export to the .box filetype):

$ bundle exec veewee vbox export 'myubuntubox'

This is actually calling vagrant package --base 'myubuntubox' --output 'boxes/myubuntubox.box'.

The machine gets shut down, exported and will be packed in a myubuntubox.box file inside the current directory.

Add the exported .box to Vagrant

To import it into Vagrant's box repository simply type:

$ vagrant box add 'myubuntubox' 'myubuntubox.box'

The parameter 'myubuntubox' sets the name that Vagrant will use to reference the box (i.e. in the Vagrantfile).

Use the added box in Vagrant

To use your newly generated box in a fresh project execute these commands:

$ vagrant init 'myubuntubox'

If you already have a project running with Vagrant, open the Vagrantfile and change the value of config.vm.box to the new box name:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "myubuntubox"
end

See the Vagrantfile machine settings for more details on setting up your Vagrantfile configuration.

Now start the new environment with vagrant up and log in with vagrant ssh to enjoy your new environment.