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# Build vagrant baseboxes using packer
## Currently supported
- Debian Jessie
- qemu, virtualbox and lxc
## Customization
- puppet, facter are pre-installed
- Permit root ssh login with password `vagrant`
## Building locally
This example builds only for the qemu provider.
packer build -only=qemu jessie.json
## Connect to VNC
While building you can connect to the box using
vncviewer -Shared localhost:PORT
just make sure to provide the PORT shown on the console shown like this:
==> qemu: Found available VNC port: 5922
## LXC
To build a lxc box, install https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc first
You need to run packer with sudo:
sudo -E packer build -only=lxc jessie.json
Cache dir is at `/var/lib/lxc/packer-lxc/rootfs`.
### Issues
#### not enough space in /tmp
The vagrant post-processor uses `/tmp` as default temp dir, and needs ~10gb of diskspace,
otherwise it will fail like this:
Post-processor failed: write /tmp/packer845144867/box.img: no space left on device
You can circumvent this problem exporting this variable before building:
export PACKER_TMP=.
BUT you need to build packer itself from source because this variable isn't read by the latest packer available as package (0.8.6).
I only got latest packer HEAD compiled after a [dirty hack i documented here](https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/3086).
#### Atlas post-processors fail without Atlas API token
You need to `remove both atlas post-processors` in the `jessie.json` file if you have not configured any Atlas API token.
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