Build an OSX 10.10 base-box for test-kitchen and VirtualBox

howto.md

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Packer
• a Mac with a lot of Memory/CPU/Disk
• great Templates/Tools from https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates

Steps

1. Open OSX App Store, download Yosemite. Once the download is finished, the installer starts. Close it right away.

2. Execute:

   mkdir /tmp/osxvm
   cd /tmp/osxvm
   git clone https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates
   cd osx-vm-templates
   sudo prepare_iso/prepare_iso.sh "/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app" out  # note result .dmg filename
   md5 out/OSX_InstallESD_10.10.3_14D136.dmg # note result checksum
   cd packer

3. For use with test-kitchen we want a base image without chef, puppet, other stuff. Also we're only going to build the virtualbox image. Open the template.json file and adjust:

--- i/packer/template.json
+++ w/packer/template.json
@@ -101,11 +101,7 @@
       "execute_command": "chmod +x {{ .Path }}; sudo {{ .Vars }} {{ .Path }}",
       "scripts": [
         "../scripts/vagrant.sh",
-        "../scripts/vmware.sh",
-        "../scripts/parallels.sh",
         "../scripts/xcode-cli-tools.sh",
-        "../scripts/chef-omnibus.sh",
-        "../scripts/puppet.sh",
         "../scripts/add-network-interface-detection.sh",
         "../scripts/autologin.sh",
         "../scripts/system-update.sh",

4. Start packer. This will take a lot of time and disk space (10+ GB)

   # update filename and checksum!
   packer build \
     -var iso_url=../out/OSX_InstallESD_10.10.3_14D136.dmg \
     -var iso_checksum=3d379eb82fd8417974aa94d76157d511 \
     -var username=vagrant \
     -var password=vagrant \
     -var autologin=true \
     -var install_vagrant_keys=true \
     -except vmware-iso,parallels-iso \
     template.json
     

5. Import box to Vagrant

   vagrant box add packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box --name macosx-10.10

6. Enjoy test-kitchen

.kitchen.yml:

---
driver:
  name: vagrant

provisioner:
  name: chef_zero


platforms:
  - name: macosx-10.10

suites:
  - name: default
    run_list:
      - recipe[your-cookbook::default]
    attributes:

Notes

Vagrant seems to have a bug, that will be fixed soon:

Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace
default: this with a newly generated keypair for better security.
Vagrant is configured to generate a random keypair and insert it
onto the guest machine, but it appears Vagrant doesn't know how to do
this with your guest OS. Please disable key insertion by setting
`config.ssh.insert_key = false` in the Vagrantfile.

After doing so, run `vagrant reload` for the setting to take effect.

If you'd like Vagrant to learn how to insert keys on this OS, please
open an issue with details about your environment.

You can find the Vagrantfile(s) inside .kitchen, add config.ssh.insert_key = false and execute vagrant reload in each directory containing a Vagrantfile.

Status

Tested on: 2015-05-28

Tested with:

• VirtualBox 4.3.28
• Vagrant 1.7.2
• Packer v0.7.5
• OSX 10.10.3_14D136
• timsutton/osx-vm-templates@ 0cad0b939b65e790f7cb5549f460dfa4cc273bbc

👍 for both :-)