Debian Buster boxes, virtualbox, and guest plugins

[Matthew Pounsett]

I'm using VirtualBox 6.0.14, Vagrant 2.2.6 with the vagrant-vbguest 0.23.0 plugin.  I'm trying to get a Debian Buster box working, but I'm having huge problems with the guest plugins.

Using the 'debian/buster64' box, the guest plugin install fails because the box is out of date compared to the buster packages actually available online (10.0.0 vs. 10.2)

E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.19.0-5-amd64

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.19.0-5-amd64'

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.19.0-5-amd64'

Using the 'generic/debian10' box, I run into a problem where the box already has the VirtualBox 5.1.38 guest additions installed, and vagrant-vbguest appears to succeed in updating them, but the default /vagrant shared folder fails to mount.  A couple of potential errors pop up during the upgrade:

Removing installed version 5.1.38 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...

./install.sh: 143: ./install.sh: VBoxControl: not found

This system appears to have a version of the VirtualBox Guest Additions

already installed.  If it is part of the operating system and kept up-to-date,

there is most likely no need to replace it.  If it is not up-to-date, you

should get a notification when you start the system.  If you wish to replace

it with this version, please do not continue with this installation now, but

instead remove the current version first, following the instructions for the

operating system.

If your system simply has the remains of a version of the Additions you could

not remove you should probably continue now, and these will be removed during

installation.

Do you wish to continue? [yes or no]

touch: cannot touch '/var/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/skip-4.19.0-6-amd64': No such file or directory

Copying additional installer modules ...

And later in my provisioning script:

vm01: ls: cannot access '/vagrant': No such file or directory

If I halt and restart the VMs, they appear to boot with the correct GuestAdditions, but I still don't get the /vagrant shared folder.

[vm01] GuestAdditions 6.0.14 running --- OK.

 I'm not sure what to poke at here to fix this.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

best will be build a box fit to your own use

you can use

https://www.packer.io/

you can find templates here:

https://github.com/chef/bento

alvaro

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