Can (and how) additional OS rpms be added to generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes ?

[BDutta]

Hi,

Absolute Vagrant newbie here.

Are the generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes, extensible or upgradable such that additional operating system rpms could be installed ?

I am assuming that those boxes might be setup using the minimal image? What if I need some of the rpms that are available as part of standard RHEL7/CentOS7 distribution, but not on the box ?

cheers,

B

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

in general:

you can run scripts and install the software you need.

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html

if the process is too slow, you can build your own boxes ready to use.

Alvaro

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[BDutta]

Thanks for the response.

It there a way to know if the generic/centos7 box is built using CentOS7 'minimal' image or 'full image' ?

Is there some box specific metadata that is available or a way to check for this information with the box publisher ?

On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 4:33:06 AM UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:

hello

in general:

you can run scripts and install the software you need.

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html

if the process is too slow, you can build your own boxes ready to use.

Alvaro

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 9:39 PM BDutta <banibra...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Absolute Vagrant newbie here.

Are the generic/centos7 or generic/rhel7 Vagrant boxes, extensible or upgradable such that additional operating system rpms could be installed ?

I am assuming that those boxes might be setup using the minimal image? What if I need some of the rpms that are available as part of standard RHEL7/CentOS7 distribution, but not on the box ?

cheers,

B

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[Jeff Bonhag]

Hi there,

The generic boxes are maintained by https://roboxes.org/ (see https://app.vagrantup.com/generic). That organization maintains a set of Packer templates for each provider. For example, here is their builder for VirtualBox/CentOS 7:

https://github.com/lavabit/robox/blob/master/generic-virtualbox.json#L1781

Cheers,

Jeff

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[BDutta]

On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 8:07:38 PM UTC+5:30, Jeff Bonhag wrote:

Hi there,

The generic boxes are maintained by https://roboxes.org/ (see https://app.vagrantup.com/generic). That organization maintains a set of Packer templates for each provider. For example, here is their builder for VirtualBox/CentOS 7:

https://github.com/lavabit/robox/blob/master/generic-virtualbox.json#L1781

Perfect. Just the bit of information I needed. It is indeed based on CentOS7 Minimal ISO, as I could see.

Thanks.

Cheers,

Jeff

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[BDutta]

On Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 1:29:01 AM UTC+5:30, BDutta wrote:

On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 8:07:38 PM UTC+5:30, Jeff Bonhag wrote:

Hi there,

The generic boxes are maintained by https://roboxes.org/ (see https://app.vagrantup.com/generic). That organization maintains a set of Packer templates for each provider. For example, here is their builder for VirtualBox/CentOS 7:

https://github.com/lavabit/robox/blob/master/generic-virtualbox.json#L1781

Perfect. Just the bit of information I needed. It is indeed based on CentOS7 Minimal ISO, as I could see.

Thanks.

Wrote too soon. I noticed that the box is using a rather old Guest Additions iso, from the 5.x line:

"guest_additions_url": "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.34/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.34.iso",

where-as my VirtualBox is from the 6.x line.

In my vagrant ssh console, here is what I see:

[vagrant@centos7 yum.repos.d]$ lsmod | grep vboxguest
vboxguest             311499  2 vboxsf

and also,

[vagrant@centos7 yum.repos.d]$ sudo /usr/sbin/VBoxService --version
5.2.34r133893

Does it mean that the guest additions from Virtualbox 5.x are working well with Virtualbox 6.x ? Seems unlikely based on what I recollect about virtualbox guest additions.

In anycase, I think this question is perhaps more appropriate for Virtualbox forums, but would be happy to find answer here as well, especially in vagrant box context.

[Jeff Bonhag]

Hi,

I think the answer is "it depends." :) In most cases it's fine, but there may be issues when the versions don't match (such as with shared folders).

I can offer a couple of suggestions in the context of Vagrant:

- Using a Vagrant box that includes the latest guest additions (such as bento/centos-7)

- Using the vagrant-vbguest plugin (https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest) to update the guest additions on your VM automatically

Cheers,

Jeff

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