Bento is a project that encapsulates Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes. A subset of templates are built and published to the bento org on Vagrant Cloud. These published boxes serve as the default boxes for kitchen-vagrant.

Adding a bento box to Vagrant

$ vagrant box add bento/ubuntu-16.04

Using a bento box in a Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-16.04"
end

• Packer
• At least one of the following virtualization providers:
  • VirtualBox
  • VMware Fusion
  • VMware Workstation
  • Parallels Desktop also requires Parallels Virtualization SDK
  • KVM *
  • Hyper-V *

*NOTE: support for these providers is considered experimental and corresponding Vagrant Cloud images may or may not exist.

To build an Ubuntu 16.04 box for only the VirtualBox provider

$ cd ubuntu
$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso ubuntu-16.04-amd64.json

To build Debian 9.1 32bit boxes for all possible providers (simultaneously)

$ cd debian
$ packer build debian-9.1-i386.json

To build CentOS 7.3 boxes for all providers except VMware and Parallels

$ cd centos
$ packer build -except=parallels-iso,vmware-iso centos-7.3-x86_64.json

To use an alternate mirror

$ cd fedora
$ packer build -var 'mirror=http://mirror.utexas.edu/fedora/linux' fedora-26-x86_64.json

If the build is successful, ready to import box files will be in the builds directory at the root of the repository.

*NOTE: box_basename can be overridden like other Packer vars with -var 'box_basename=ubuntu-16.04'

Templates for operating systems only available via license or subscription are also available in the repository, these include but are not limited to: Mac OS X, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise. As the ISOs are not publicly available the URL values will need to be overridden as appropriate. We rely on the efforts of those with access to licensed versions of the operating systems to keep these up-to-date.

Most of the providers expect unrestricted access to networking in order to build as expected. We can't enumerate all possible firewall configurations but include some snippets below that might be useful to users.

$VS = "Standardswitch"
$IF_ALIAS = (Get-NetAdapter -Name "vEthernet ($VS)").ifAlias
New-NetFirewallRule -Displayname "Allow incomming from $VS" -Direction Inbound -InterfaceAlias $IF_ALIAS -Action Allow

See this wiki page

Please use GitHub issues to report bugs, features, or other problems.

• https://github.com/boxcutter
• https://github.com/mcandre/packer-templates
• https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates
• https://github.com/ferventcoder/vagrant-windows-puppet/tree/master/baseboxes

These basebox templates were converted from veewee definitions originally based on work done by Tim Dysinger to make "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) modular baseboxes. Thanks Tim!

macOS templates were adopted wholesale from Fletcher Nichol's packer templates.

• Author: Chris McClimans ([email protected])
• Author: Fletcher Nichol ([email protected])
• Author: Joshua Timberman ([email protected])
• Author: Julian Dunn ([email protected])
• Author: Ross Timson ([email protected])
• Author: Seth Chisamore ([email protected])
• Author: Stephen Delano ([email protected])
• Author: Tim Dysinger ([email protected])
• Author: Tim Smith ([email protected])
• Author: Tom Duffield ([email protected])

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