Ubuntu Vagrant base box

Build bootable i386 and amd64 Ubuntu ISOs for use with Vagrant/VirtualBox.

Building

Configure settings in config.sh, then build the ISO images:

./build-iso

Building virtual machines through VirtualBox:

./build-vbox

Building Vagrant boxes:

./build-vagrant

There are matching clean-{iso,vbox,vagrant} programs that remove the products of their build counterparts. These scripts were originally written for OS X, but I have modified and tested them on an Ubuntu 10.10 Linux machine.

Build dependencies

• VirtualBox 4.0
• curl
• m4
• mkisofs

Features in the ISO

• Network access is configured using sane default settings. WiFi is not supported.
• The hostname is devstructure; the domain is vagrantup.com. These are configurable.
• The system clock is set to UTC.
• The entire disk is partitioned ext4 without LVM.
• The default kernel for the architecture is used. linux-server for amd64 and linux-generic-pae for i386.
• The root and vagrant users exist; both their password are vagrant. Vagrant's standard insecure SSH key is authorized for vagrant. These are all configurable.
• DevStructure's Debian archive is added to the source list.
• OpenSSH server is installed.
• VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed.

Features in the Vagrant boxes

• Ruby 1.8.7
• RubyGems 1.3.7
• Chef 0.9.12