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Automated Oracle VM VirtualBox Ubuntu build using Packer.

Prerequisites

Note: use these or newer versions for building images.

• Packer 1.6.5
  • One of xorriso, mkisofs, hdiutil (normally found in macOS) or oscdimg (normally found in Windows as part of the Windows ADK) is required by Packer
• Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1.14
• Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions 6.1.14
• Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack 6.1.14
• Vagrant 2.2.14

Install

pip install pipenv
pipenv shell

Build

• Run python -m lib.build --help for usage information
• The distro and release must be specified
• All variants are built automatically to build
• Add --vagrant to produce Vagrant boxes

python -m lib.build ubuntu 18.04 root base mininet

• Debug with python -m lib.build --debug --dry-run debian 10.6.10 root

Note: if root is specified it’ll be the first thing to be built, otherwise a packer-{template}-{release}-root named VM must exist with a snapshot attached to it called Root.

Release

1. Install GitHub CLI
2. Create one or more personal access token with repo and/or admin:org scoped permissions
3. Run gh auth login and use one of the tokens
4. Run python -m lib.release after the build to output the gh command that creates the release
5. Use python -m lib.release --owner <OWNER> --repo <REPO> to specify which user/organization/repo to create the release at exactly

Vagrant

Vagrant boxes are released through Vagrant Cloud.

1. Login at https://app.vagrantup.com using an existing account
2. Create a token and copy/save it somewhere
3. Login with vagrant cloud auth login --username <username> --token <token>
4. Create a box if one doesn’t exist yet, e.g. vagrant cloud box create <organization>/<box-name>
5. Publish an existing local box image, e.g. vagrant cloud publish <organization>/<box-name> <version> virtualbox <path-to-box>

Licenses

Copyright 2020-2021, Kohányi Róbert (<kohanyi.robert@gmail.com>)
Copyright 2012-2019, Chef Software, Inc. (<legal@chef.io>)
Copyright 2011-2012, Tim Dysinger (<tim@dysinger.net>)
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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