baseboxes build with packer for use with vagrant. This repository includes the packer templates to build the baseboxes. The build boxes are available through

• Atlas (former Vagrantcloud)
• Amazon S3 (eu-central-1)

• vagrant
• packer
• virtualbox
• VMware Fusion
• AWS Command Line Interface
• Thor

Make sure you have the above tools installed.

The following env vars must be present:

• PACKER_ATLAS_TOKEN Atlas API Token
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID Amazon Webservices KEY-ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY Amazon Webservices ACCESS-KEY

You have to adjust the Thorfile line 50 to match your own S3 bucket.

run the following command to build/upload individual boxes:

$ bundle exec thor packer:build \
  --atlas_version=1.0.0 \                 # version tag
  --os=debian \                           # os distribution (debian/ubuntu)
  --os_version=6.0.10 \                   # os version
  --providers=virtualbox,vmware_desktop,parallels # providers to build

run the following command to build/upload ALL boxes sequentially:

$ ./build_boxes.sh

run the following command to delete temporary artifacts

$ bundle exec thor packer:clean cache

run the following command to delete all local box files

$ bundle exec thor packer:clean boxes

• VMware Tools 9.9.3
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.0
• Chef 12.4.1-1
• Ruby 1.9.3.194-8.1ubuntu2.1
• Rubygems 2.4.8

• VMware Tools 9.9.3
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.0
• Chef 12.4.1-1
• Ruby 1.9.3.194-8.1ubuntu2.1
• Rubygems 2.4.8

• VMware Tools 9.9.3
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.0
• Chef 12.4.1-1
• Ruby 1.9.3.484-2
• Rubygems 2.4.8

• VMware Tools 9.9.3
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.0
• Chef 12.4.1-1
• Ruby 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u2
• Rubygems 2.4.8

• VMware Tools 9.9.3
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.0
• Chef 12.4.1-1
• Ruby 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u2
• Rubygems 2.4.8

• VMware Tools 9.9.3
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.0
• Chef 12.4.1-1
• Ruby 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u2
• Rubygems 2.4.8

• VMware Tools 9.9.3
• VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.0
• Chef 12.4.1-1
• Ruby 1.9.2.0-2+deb6u2
• Rubygems 2.4.8

The following Thor tasks are provided for automated testing of the cookbook:

$ bundle exec thor list
thor packer:build     # Execute the packer builder
thor packer:clean     # Remove temporary artifacts
thor packer:validate  # Validate all the packer templates

• Author:: Achim Rosenhagen ([email protected])
• Copyright:: 2015, ffuenf

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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