How to install a box with a packaged Vagrantfile?

[Richard Wellum]

I used vagrant package to create the following:

$ tar xfv *.box

x ./box-disk1.vmdk

x ./box.ovf

x ./include/

x ./include/_Vagrantfile

x ./Vagrantfile

The ./Vagrantfile correctly loads the included Vagrantfile:

cat Vagrantfile 

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|

  # This Vagrantfile is auto-generated by `vagrant package` to contain

  # the MAC address of the box. Custom configuration should be placed in

  # the actual `Vagrantfile` in this box.

  config.vm.base_mac = "080027111C84"

end

# Load include vagrant file if it exists after the auto-generated

# so it can override any of the settings

include_vagrantfile = File.expand_path("../include/_Vagrantfile", __FILE__)

load include_vagrantfile if File.exist?(include_vagrantfile)

How do I install this box so that it runs ./Vagrantfile and then finds the embedded Vagrant file. I've tried:

 vagrant init .mybox.box

 vagrant up

And:

 cd to box location

 vagrant init boxname

 vagrant box add --name boxname mybox.box

 vagrant up

And:

 vagrant box add --name boxname mybox.box

 vagrant init boxname

 vagrant up

The embedded Vagrantfile is never ran. I think of these all, the first should work as it doesn't create a default Vagrant init file.

vagrant version 1.8.1

Thanks!

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

Can you try using vagrant package?

z2-3:~ kikitux$ vagrant package -h

Usage: vagrant package [options] [name]

Options:

        --base NAME                  Name of a VM in virtualbox to package as a base box

        --output NAME                Name of the file to output

        --include FILE...            Additional files to package with the box

        --vagrantfile FILE           Vagrantfile to package with the box

    -h, --help                       Print this help

z2-3:~ kikitux$ 

Thanks

Alvaro.

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[Richard Wellum]

Hi,

I did use vagrant package to create the box.

And the vagrant file got packaged correctly (./include/Vagrantfile and ./Vagrantfile (which points to the former)) as the above files show.

But when I use the box, the embedded vagrant file is not getting run - that's my issue.

If I do a 'vagrant init <name>' it creates a ./Vagrantfile that does not point to my embedded Vagrant file in the box.

So my question is how do I run my box, but use the .Vagrantfile included in the box that points to ./include/Vagrantfile (essentially ignoring or not doing 'vagrant init')?

I know it must be possible because why else have the --vagrantfile option.

Thanks,

||Rich

[Richard Wellum]

Figured it out. There was an error in my Vagrantfile. It was being run, but the section of config I used to configure my ssh settings was not getting reached.

Thanks,

||Rich