Vagrant -

Creating a base box

This is a checklist for creating a custom Vagrant base box using VirtualBox.

1. Download Ubuntu 14.04 64bit server image.
2. Create virtual machine.
3. Start with 512MB of memory and go higher if needed.
4. Create dynamically resizing drive with a large maximum size.
5. Use the downloaded server image.
6. Use root password vagrant. Create user "vagrant" with password "vagrant".
7. Place Vagrant public SSH key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

   # Make sure that `~/.ssh` is `0700`.
   # Make sure that `authorized_keys` is `0600`.
   mkdir -p /home/vagrant/.ssh
   chmod 0700 /home/vagrant/.ssh
   wget --no-check-certificate \
       https://raw.github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub \
       -O /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
   chmod 0600 /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
   chown -R vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh
   

8. Initial virtual machine must have:
9. The first network interface (adapter 1) must be a NAT adapter.
10. The MAC address of the first network interface, set by config.vm.base_mac.
11. Use SSH key from Vagrant git repo. https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/tree/master/keys
12. Add vagrant user to the list of sudoers.

    /etc/sudoers.d/vagrant
    vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
    

13. To keep SSH speedy, set UseDNS to no is SSH server configuration.
14. Install Guest Additions for folder sharing between host and slave.

    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms
    sudo apt-get install -y gcc build-essential linux-headers-server
    

15. Disable audio, disable USB.
16. Enable SSH authorized keys configuration.

    sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
    AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys # uncomment
    sudo service ssh restart
    

17. Package the virtual machine.

    vagrant box add my-box /path/to/the/new.box
    vagrant init my-box
    vagrant up
    vagrant package --base my-virtual-machine-in-virtual-box