vagrant-centos

Scripts to create a lean CentOS Vagrant box.

Run:

./setup

and at the boot prompt press tab to gain access to the boot options. Add the ks=.* string you get from the command prompt. The rest of the installation is automated.

Finally, run the last command that setup spits out (it's of the form ./cleanup && ...). Congratulations! You have just created a Vagrant box.

Specification

The box is constrained to 613 MiB of memory to vaguely resemble an Amazon AWS micro instance. You may want to consider adjusting this for your needs using options like:

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 2048]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on", "--cpus", 2]
end

in your Vagrantfile.

This box has a heavy bias towards US English locales. If this affects you, please adjust the ks.cfg file accordingly. This was mainly done as a space saving measure.

Additional Notes

A simple Ruby-based webserver has been provided in order to bootstrap the process. Alternatively, you could host the ks.cfg file on your own HTTP server.

Please be aware that these scripts will not install any special provisioners beyond the shell. Patches will be considered if you wish to contribute support for Puppet, Chef, etc.

The development tools group package is also included for convenience. This includes things like gcc and make as well as VCSs like git, hg, bzr, etc.

You are encouraged to look at the file vars.sh to modify the configuration to best suit your needs. In particular, take note of the location of the ISOs (which aren't include in the git repository):

INSTALLER="./isos/CentOS-6.5-x86_64-minimal.iso"
GUESTADDITIONS="./isos/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.14.iso"

Assumptions have been made about the location of the hard drive as well:

HDD="${HOME}/VirtualBox VMs/${NAME}/${NAME}.vmdk"

If you wished to be emailed with the various logs the build produces see the ks.cfg file and find the line:

EMAIL=root

and adjust accordingly.