How to create Vagrant box?

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In this post I will show you how to create a vagrant box from pothonos ISO.

Base VM

Fist we need to create a virtualbox vm and install the latest PothonOS ISO.

  • Name: Photon-base
  • Type: Linux
  • Version: Other Linux (64-bit)
  • Memory Size: 1024MB
  • New Virtual Disk: [Type: VDI, Size: 40 GB]

Modify the hardware settings of the virtual machine:

  • Disable audio
  • Disable USB
  • Ensure Network Adapter 1 is set to NAT
  • Add this port-forwarding rule:
  • Name: SSH
  • Protocol: TCP
  • Host IP: blank
  • Host Port: 2222
  • Guest IP: blank
  • Guest Port: 22

Configure System

Change the root users password to vagrant

passwd
chage -I -1 -m 0 -M 99999 -E -1 root

Upgrade system and install packages:

tdnf upgrade -y
tdnf install sudo nano wget awk tar build-essential linux-devel less -y

Create the vagrant account

Next you need to create the default vagrant user account:

useradd -m -G sudo vagrant
passwd vagrant
chage -I -1 -m 0 -M 99999 -E -1 vagrant

cat > /etc/sudoers.d/vagrant < EOF
# add vagrant user
vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
EOF

Change ssh config

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
AuthorizedKeysFile     %h/.ssh/authorized_keys

systemctl restart sshd

Add vagrant ssh keys to vagrant user

su - vagrant

mkdir -p /home/vagrant/.ssh
chmod 0700 /home/vagrant/.ssh

wget --no-check-certificate \
    https://raw.github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub \
    -O /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys

chmod 0600 /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown –R vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh

Add VirtualBoxadditions

Go to your virtualbox menu for the VM and select Devices / Insert Guest Additions CD Image

Example image

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Compress vm

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
sudo rm -f /EMPTY

Package box

vagrant package --base "Photon-base"

vagrant box add <user-name>/photon3 package.box
vagrant box add devopstales/photon3 package.box