Made a Vagrant Box based on KVM img, easier now for Windows and Mac

[Ross Duggan]

Great stuff! I sort of gathered that system updates might break it from one
of the other discussion threads. Looking forward to something tidier,
thanks!

Ross

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Ben Howard <ben.howard at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hi Marvin and Ross,
>
> I'm taking a look at what it will take to release a Vagrant image that
> works and preserves the Snappy experience. The community versions that I
> have taken a quick look will actually break upon updating, so its going
> to a take a bit more holistic fix. The problem here is that Vagrant
> makes assumptions that Snappy breaks (like DKMS modules).
>
> Once we have something more official, I'll reach out to you two for
> testing.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
>
> On 12/10/2014 01:45 PM, Marvin Reimer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > It was fun to create a new vagrant box for ubuntu core (actually this
> > was my first one I've created).
> >
> > I've tested Ross' Vagrant and it seems more polished than mine which
> > is lacking VirtualBox Guest Extensions and a mount of local directory
> > to /vagrant.
> >
> > I think the best would be if you use your existing Vagrant Boxes for
> > normal Ubuntu https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu as template for creating
> > the Ubuntu Core one.
> >
> > The most important for me as developer is to have VirtualBox Guest
> > Extensions and to map the local directory to somewhere like /vagrant
> > so that I can easily edit my dev files on my host with my editor of
> > choice and try them out immediately in my guest VM.
> >
> > And do not wait to long... the main reason for me for creating a
> > vagrant box is that I use a mac as desktop and something like KVM is a
> > too big barrier for Mac and Windows users which still use Ubuntu for
> > the dev and production stuff ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Marvin
> >
> > 2014-12-10 21:20 GMT+01:00 Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at canonical.com>:
> >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Ross Duggan <ross.duggan at acm.org>
> wrote:
> >>> Just beat me to it :)
> >>>
> >>> I've created a box that supports shares via Guest Additions (a little
> bit
> >>> arduously by installing all required dependencies manually using
> dpkg). Uses
> >>> the standard vagrant/vagrant user also.
> >>>
> >>> https://atlas.hashicorp.com/duggan/boxes/ubuntu-core-alpha
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Marvin Reimer <therealmarv at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I've created a Vagrant VM box based on the KVM image which is more
> easy to
> >>>> use on Windows and Mac:
> >>>>
> >>>> All source code and how to use that VM is here. It is is basically a
> one
> >>>> liner "vagrant init therealmarv/ubuntu-core"
> >>>> https://bitbucket.org/therealmarv/ubuntu-core-vagrant
> >>>>
> >>>> It is really great for a quick try out of snappy on a Mac and Windows
> and
> >>>> easier than KVM.
> >>>>
> >>>> My knowledge of integrating Virtualbox Guest Additions on a Ubuntu
> Core is
> >>>> too limited. I hope that you will support Vagrant Boxes of Ubuntu
> Core like
> >>>> this one:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-i386-vagrant-disk1.box
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Marvin Reimer
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> (sorry for sending this to app-devel list before)
> >> Hey guys, thanks for that!  The interest in Vagrant image is perhaps
> >> something that slipped past our radar as we prepped for the initial
> >> Snappy announcement.  In retrospect, this is a fantastic idea.
> >>
> >> I have CC'd Ben Howard, who is responsible for the tooling and
> >> automation around building and publishing these images.
> >>
> >> Ben, could you have a look at this from Marvin and Ross, and integrate
> >> it into our Snappy image build/publish processes?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Dustin
>
> --
>
>
> Ben Howard
> ben.howard at canonical.com
> Canonical
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