[CentOS-devel] Feedback on C7 Vagrant Box

[Karanbir Singh]

On 09/07/15 12:23, Michael Vermaes wrote:
> Hello, in addition to the other comments, I just wanted to say that it
> would be great to have an 'official' vmware_desktop Vagrant box
> available on Atlas as well.
> 
> Let me know if there's anything I can do to help enable that. I found
> this bugzilla issue which could maybe be used for tracking the various
> requirements?
> 
> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6365
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael

I believe the vbox image should work as-is with the vmware provider as
well ? is that something you might be able to try ?

- KB

> 
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Timothy Rees <reestr.uk at gmail.com
> <mailto:reestr.uk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I would suggest keeping the root volume as minimal as possible for the
>     box and then let the end users to grow it using methods provided by
>     Vagrant.  Anyone then can grow the volume to their specific use case,
>     its a lot easier than reducing a default, large disk provided with a
>     box.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Tim
> 
>     On 8 July 2015 at 19:31, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com
>     <mailto:lmohanty at redhat.com>> wrote:
>     > On 07/08/2015 10:32 PM, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hi, I've started doing some testing on the Virtualbox Vagrant box
>     >>
>     (http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/vagrant/x86_64/images/CentOS-7-Vagrant-1505-x86_64-01.box)
>     >>
>     >> I've hit a couple of issues:
>     >>
>     >> 1) The disk size, at about 8 GB, is too small.  Could it be bumped to
>     >> 50-100 GB? Since the on-disk image will grow dynamically this
>     won't take up
>     >> that much space by default but will make it usable for those that
>     need more
>     >> storage on the root partition (and I don't want to have to custom
>     mount
>     >> additional partitions).
>     >>
>     >
>     > Yes, this can be fixed. I am fine with bumping the disk size to
>     50GB as it
>     > would be sparse disk. Also there are few tricks you can do with the
>     > Vagrantfile to increase the disk size. But I have not tried them
>     >
>     >> 2) The VirtualBox Guest Additions aren't included.  I'm assuming
>     this is
>     >> due to a licensing issue and not that they were simply not
>     considered but
>     >> wanted to double check.
>     >>
>     >
>     > This part I am not sure. I need to check how we can add
>     "VirtualBox Guest
>     > Additions". yes, we want to fix this.
>     >>
>     >> Otherwise it's been great, and saves me having to build my own
>     custom box,
>     >> which is definitely a win.
>     >>
>     >> -Jeff
>     >
>     >
>     > How do we track these issues? I just dont want to loose track of
>     these.
>     >
>     > -Lala
>     >



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