[CentOS-devel] Experimental Vagrant images

Greetings!

I wanted to provide some feedback on my use of these experimental vagrant images over the last week or so.

The provider that I tested under was VirtualBox.

My day to day work requires that I stand up VMs to recreate and troubleshoot customer issues, have pristine environments in order to (re)build packages and other random tasks.  This work is usually on CentOS 6 or 7 via the centos/6 and centos/7 images, respectively, so having both of these images to test out was very useful and aligned with my normal practices.

The experience continues to be all-around positive!  No issues have been encountered related to the images at all.

In addition to the above, I expanded the size of the virtual disks multiple times as well as tested adding, removing and resizing swap.

If there are any additional tests or any specific questions you have about my use of these images, please let me know!

Thanks!

-Rich

Rich Alloway | Linux Developer
Rogue Wave Software, Inc.
Innovate with Confidence
www.roguewave.com <http://www.roguewave.com/> / richard.alloway at roguewave.com


On 6/28/18, 00:30, "CentOS-devel on behalf of Laurentiu Pancescu" <centos-devel-bounces at centos.org on behalf of lpancescu at centosproject.org> wrote:

    Hi there,
    
    I would like to change the Vagrant images to use a single partition 
    (xfs) and swap to a file on that partition.  This would simplify 
    resizing the OS partition and also adjusting the size of the swap, 
    compared to the current images.  Would anyone be interested in testing 
    the images?  Please email me off-list for the links.  I already had the 
    changes done last month, tested them myself and on CICO but didn't get 
    to wider testing or merging the PR for the monthly release... life is 
    bit complicated lately. :)
    
    The only gotcha with swapping to a file is that you have to create the 
    swap file with dd, as fallocate doesn't work properly on XFS.  The 
    experimental images come with a preconfigured swap, so this is only 
    important if you want to change to another swap size.
    
    Thanks,
    Laurențiu
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