[CentOS-devel] vagrant image nits for future update

[Vince Skahan]

I've corresponded with KS in the past regarding the vagrant images (thanks!) but wanted to this to the list to request the vagrant images be tweaked a little in future updates:


*         the /boot partition is too small - starting with a current vagrant image, just one kernel update resulted in complaints about /boot being too full.   Can we consider adding 100MB to the /boot size and changing the installonly_limit in yum.conf down to perhaps 2 to try to live in a tiny /boot without users needing to work that hard after a simple yum update

The manual steps in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105026 work ok, as one way to work around it manually.


*         there is no DVD device defined, making it painful to install VirtualBox guest additions.   At a minimum the box should have the device defined there so users don't have to work so hard if they update their kernel.

Possible workarounds including adding a vagrant plugin (https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest) to automate reinstalling the guest additions pretty nicely.

Other workaround is to manually add the device in your Vagrantfile using vb.customize ala:


Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "centos/7"
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.gui = true
    vb.memory = "1024"
    vb.customize "pre-boot", [
          "storageattach", :id,
          "--storagectl", "IDE Controller",
           "--port", "1",
          "--device", "0",
          "--type", "dvddrive",
          "--medium", "emptydrive",
          ]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--clipboard",   "bidirectional"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--draganddrop", "bidirectional"]
  end
  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provision.sh"
end



I'm bringing it up only because these images are 'so' good already, it would be fabulous if no workarounds were needed out of the box.



Thanks again for the rolling vagrant/docker/AMI images - much appreciated.  They really help.

--
Vince Skahan
Infrastructure Engineering and Support
Office of Research Information Services (ORIS)

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