[CentOS-devel] Feedback on C7 Vagrant Box
Lalatendu Mohanty
lmohanty at redhat.com
Fri Jul 10 05:06:15 UTC 2015
On 07/10/2015 10:27 AM, Michael Vermaes wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org
> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Here's the message I received when I tried
> to 'vagrant up' after '
> vagrant init centos/7
> '
>
> Bringing machine 'default' up with 'vmware_workstation' provider...
> ==> default: Box 'centos/7' could not be found. Attempting to find and
> install...
> default: Box Provider: vmware_desktop, vmware_fusion,
> vmware_workstation
> default: Box Version: >= 0
> ==> default: Loading metadata for box 'centos/7'
> default: URL: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/centos/7
> The box you're attempting to add doesn't support the provider
> you requested. Please find an alternate box or use an alternate
> provider. Double-check your requested provider to verify you didn't
> simply misspell it.
>
> If you're adding a box from HashiCorp's Atlas, make sure the box is
> released.
>
> Name: centos/7
> Address: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/centos/7
> Requested provider: ["vmware_desktop", "vmware_fusion",
> "vmware_workstation"]
>
> Based on your comment, it sounds like the underlying image should be
> compatible with VMware, it probably just needs to be uploaded again
> specifying that it is also valid for the vmware_desktop provider.
>
This error is expected if you are using atlas.hashicorp.com/centos/7
<https://atlas.hashicorp.com/centos/7> as we don't have vmware provider
released there.
Can you please try the below [1] image. You have have to manually
download the image then add it to Vagrant. Lets me know if you need any
help on that.
[1]
http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/vagrant/x86_64/images/CentOS-7-Vagrant-1505-x86_64-01.box
> Similarly to Jeff's request about Guest Additions for VirtualBox, it
> would be ideal to have the VMware Tools preinstalled in this box -
> this is a requirement for shared folders to work. If the CentOS 7
> image is built from
> https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/blob/master/vagrant/centos7.ks,
> I think it would be a matter of including open-vm-tools in the list of
> packages, to get access to /usr/lib64/libhgfs.so.
>
Yeah thats the ks file used for creating the Vagrant box.
>
>
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Timothy Rees
> <reestr.uk at gmail.com <mailto:reestr.uk at gmail.com>
> > <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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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