Building Vagrant VMWare box on EC2 Ubuntu Instance

[Moogs]

Hello,

We are looking at setting up a build pipeline that spawns a bunch of different images for different environments. Specifically EC2 and Vagrant under Fusion images (AMI/Box). I am trying to build a vagrant box image for vmware fusion on Ubuntu in EC2 but it seems this is futile as it requires a lot of the VMWare tools and such. Is this even possible? What is the recommended approach to building images (AMI for EC2 and Vagrant/Fusion for local dev work)?

Thanks!

Moogs

[Nick Charlton]

Hi!

This isn't something I've directly tried to do with EC2, as I've only done this kind of thing on other virtualisation platforms.

You'd need to have support for nested virtualisation (Intel v-T, is perhaps the right name?), which I don't believe EC2 supports (see: http://cloudstacking.com/posts/running-hyper-v-vmware-or-xen-on-an-aws-ec2-instance.html).

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Nick

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

 can you share a bit of info on why you want that?

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[Moogs]

Our entire infra is on EC2. We want to tie in an image building process for production images to the same system that builds dev images. We use S3 to store boxes now but they're hand built. We would ideally like to keep our build infra in EC2 and not have to push to a slave in our office running os x or something similar. All of our instances are automated including build slaves and such. We would like to keep things under the same fold if possible.

On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 4:06:53 PM UTC-7, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:

 can you share a bit of info on why you want that?

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Moogs <moo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

We are looking at setting up a build pipeline that spawns a bunch of different images for different environments. Specifically EC2 and Vagrant under Fusion images (AMI/Box). I am trying to build a vagrant box image for vmware fusion on Ubuntu in EC2 but it seems this is futile as it requires a lot of the VMWare tools and such. Is this even possible? What is the recommended approach to building images (AMI for EC2 and Vagrant/Fusion for local dev work)?

Thanks!

Moogs

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

sorry, just to have the whole picture

if all your infra is on EC2, where the vmware requirement came from?

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[Moogs Nonamer]

As mentioned in the original post, local Dev work.

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Packer support creating VMWare VMs for Vagrant and AWS.

If you are creating AWS AMI for Vagrant, then packer can do that too.

The original scope of packer was to have the same provisioning script running on several providers, say Fusion and AWS AMI.

With this in mind, you will end having a box that has been provisioned in the same way.

So is not neeed to have cross hypervisor stuff.

Of course there are usercases when people would love to do differently.

In the particular case you have, even if you could install vmtools inside an AMI, packer doesn't have a way to download a disk or AMI and create a VM for Fusion from that.

So I am afraid that the use case is out side of what packer can do today.

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