Can packer build vagrant box from another box?

[小川修]

Hi.

I want to build vagrant box by packer.

But I wanna to start from another box instead of ISO image.

Can packer builds vagrant box from another box?

Thank you!

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

vmware-vmx and virtualbox-iso allow you start from other box

aws, digitalocean and other in the cloud, start from a base
box/ami/droplet, so here is also yes.

What provider are you going to use? do you have the base box?

Alvaro.

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[小川修]

Thank you very much !! @Alvaro.

Now, I am using chef/bento and runnning provision at Vagrantfile.

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.define "base" do |config|
config.vm.box = "opscode_centos-7.0"
config.vm.box_url =
"http://opscode-vm-bento.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/virtualbox/opscode_centos-7.0_chef-provisionerless.box"
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: $provision_ansible +
"ansible-playbook -i /etc/ansible/hosts -l host.example.com
/vagrant/playbook.yml"
end
end

Then,I want to do same thing with Packer.

Maybe, virtualbox-iso is answer?

Could you tell me more information?

Regards

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

in that particular case, you can use virtualbox-iso provider with packer

chef have all the boxes available on github

clone this repo

https://github.com/chef/

and check this file:
https://github.com/chef/bento/blob/master/centos-7.1-x86_64.json

I suggest you do the tutorial first:
https://atlas.hashicorp.com/tutorial/packer-vagrant/0

and then you will see first hand packer working, and you can move to
your very first own box.

Alvaro.

[小川修]

Hi.

I found same question.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29159874/how-to-use-packer-with-box-file

And

There is no virtualbox-box builder at
https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox.html.

By default, I can not create virtualbox box from other box.

If something is wrong, please tell me.

Thank you.

[Ethan S.]

You can extract an existing box using 7zip or tar. A box according to the spec is simply a tar file containing the VM (provider specific) and a Vagrantfile as well as a metadata.json if it was versioned.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

virtualbox-iso is to start with iso
virtualbox-ovf is to start with other vm from ovf

like this:
https://github.com/kikitux/packer-vagrant-oracle/blob/master/packer-make/oracle6-2pass/oracle6-preinstall.json

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