issue with vagrant on Debian Wheezy

Makefile

all: vagrant-note.html vagrant-base.html

vagrant-note.html: vagrant-note.md
	maruku --html --output vagrant-note.html vagrant-note.md

vagrant-base.html: vagrant-base.md
	maruku --html --output vagrant-base.html vagrant-base.md

vagrant-base.md

Setting up a vagrant base box from scratch

Setting up a vagrant base box consists of two steps:

• Setting up virtual machine in virtualbox
• Packaging the virtual machine to the .box file

Setting up virtual machine in virtualbox:

• Install/remove packages that you want

• Install vim and set it to default editor (personal reference)
  # apt-get -y install vim && update-alternatives --config editor

• Setup tmpfs for /tmp and /var/log (personal reference)
  # echo "tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
# echo "tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

• Create accounts for vagrant
  # groupadd admin
# mkdir /home/vagrant
# useradd -G admin -d /home/vagrant -s /bin/bash vagrant
# usermod -G admin vagrant

• Edit sudoers so everyone can sudo with visudo so we have these lines
  Defaults env_keep="SSH_AUTH_SOCK"
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

• Install VirtualBox Linux Addition (Devices->Install Guest Additions)
  # apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential dkms
# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

• If you want to use your own key then cp your ~/.ssh/id_rsa of the host that you will launch vagrant VMs to ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of vagrant account in VM.

• If you use the default vagrant insecure_private_key at $HOME/.vagrant.d then you need to use the vagrant public key.
  vagrant$ mkdir .ssh && cd .ssh
vagrant$ wget http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/raw/master/keys/vagrant.pub
vagrant$ mv vagrant.pub authorized_keys

• SSH Tweak from docs.vagrantup.com
# echo "UseDNS no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

• Clean up cache and system packages
  # apt-get autoclean && apt-get autoremove

• Remove logs of the virtual machine at host machine:
  $rm $HOME/VirtualBox\ VMs/DebianWheezy64/Logs/*

Packaging the virtual machine to .box file:

• Change CWD
$ cd /path/to/VirtualBox\ VMs/DebianWheezy64

• If you have a lot of RAM, use /tmp with tmpfs. Notice the name after --base must be the same name of your VM that you are using with VirtualBox.
  $ time vagrant package --base DebianWheezy64 --output /tmp/DebianWheezy64.box
  This should take less than 3 minutes if you have SSD and plenty of memory.

References:
Creating a vagrant base box for ubuntu 12.04 32bit server
How I setup Ubuntu 11.04 Server using VirtualBox on a MacBook Air
Base Boxes
Creating base box from scratch for Vagrant

Disable Firewall in Debian:
Stop firewall in Debian
Debian Firewall

vagrant-note.md

Setting up vagrant 1.0.6

Debian Wheezy

$getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION
glibc 2.13

When you install vagrant 1.0.6 deb package file, vagrant has its own ruby 1.9.1 in /opt/vagrant/embedded directory. This ruby requires glibc 2.14 or later. You should edit the last line from

${EMBEDDED_DIR}/bin/ruby ${VAGRANT_EXECUTABLE} "$@"

to

ruby ${VAGRANT_EXECUTABLE} "$@"

to use the system ruby version.

Ubuntu 12.04.2

$getconf GNU_LIBC_VERSION
glibc 2.15

Installing from .deb file works.

URLs:

• vagrant website
• Download vagrant

Author: Tuan T. Pham