Is it possible to build a Vagrant box (virtualbox provider) on AWS with Packer?

[Greg Roodt]

Hi

I'm wondering if it is possible to build Virtualbox Vagrant boxes with Packer on an AWS instance? I know that it is possible to create a Vagrant box that is run on AWS (vagrant-aws), but I'm looking to build developer boxes for local use.

The preference is to build the boxes in CI, but I've seen somewhere that it might not be possible to run Virtualbox on AWS.

My thoughts were:
1. Start with an existing ISO
2. Provision it with Packer
3. Use the vagrant post-processor to output a vagrant.box

Is this possible?

Thanks!
Greg
 

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

For most of the AWS flavor as they are either XEN or KVM the answer is no.

I would think the new nitro or baremetal may be able to install and run Virtualbox, not sure if cost will be friendly.

If you are open to other clouds, packet.net runs fine, you can provision with Terraform and run packer there.

Alvaro

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[Rickard von Essen]

There is support for nested virtualization since some time on AWS, see  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/

But you need* to run the builder for the Vagrant provider you want to support, i.e. virtualbox-XXX. 

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[Greg Roodt]

Thanks both. I'll look into this a bit more then. I'll try a C5 instance and then if that doesn't work, explore other options like packet.net.

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