You could do this setup during the installation, but if not here is what you need to do.Įcho -e 'vagrant vagrant' | passwd vagrant The 'root' user password must be set to 'vagrant' and there needs to be a user called 'vagrant' with a password of 'vagrant'. All this configuration is done as the 'root' user inside the VM. A Vagrant base box must conform to a few specific standards in terms of configuration. With the VM in place we need to do the mandatory Vagrant-specific configuration. Remember not to put anything private on the box, as anyone else using the box may have access to it! Mandatory Vagrant Configuration Once complete, we made sure the installation media was no longer attached to the VM.Īt this point we have a functioning VM, with very little installed on it. We did a basic installation, trying not to deviate from the defaults, and with minimal additional software. In this example we installed the operating system using the 'Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-30_Beta-1.8.iso' media. The only thing we really care about is the virtual disk is big enough to be useful for basic work, and there is a NAT network adaptor, which is mandatory for a Vagrant box. That includes changing the VM name, CPU, memory, network configuration and any additional storage. The VM definition is purposely simple, as we will tailor it for every installation using the Vagrantfile for that specific installation.

Storage: 60G VMDK Dynamically allocated storage.Adapter 1 Intel PROD/1000 MT Desktop (NAT) The VM was created with the following details. In this example we are building a box for Fedora 30 beta, because at the time of writing there isn't a box available for the beta release. We start by manually creating a virtual machine (VM) in VirtualBox in the normal way. The approach would be similar for other Linux distributions. In this article we demonstrate the creation of a new Vagrant base box using a Fedora distribution and VirtualBox. This could be because a box doesn't already exist, you have common setup you would prefer not the repeat for every build, or because you prefer not to use other people's boxes. In some situations you will want to create your own boxes. When using Vagrant you often use an existing Box as the base for your installation.

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