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Building CentOS Machine With Vagrant and VeeWee

This is more of a quick checklist for building a CentOS box with Vagrant and VeeWee than a real blog post.

Prerequisites

• Oracle VirtualBox installed
• Vagrant installed (sudo gem install vagrant)
• VeeWee installed (sudo gem install veewee)
• CentOS 6.0 i386 DVD ISO downloaded from one of the mirrors listed in http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/

Building a CentOS box

• Create working directories and copy the ISO image

$ mkdir -p ~/vagrant/centos60build/iso
$ cd ~/vagrant/centos60build
$ cp __PATH_TO_THE_ISO_IMAGE__ ./iso/

• Create a box definition

$ vagrant basebox define centos60 CentOS-6.0-i386

• Make any changes you need to the definition file in definitions/centos60/definition.rb. Make sure the name of the ISO and its MD5 are correct.
• Adjust postinstall and kickstart files if you need to
• Kickstart a Virtual Machine with CentOS 6.0 (this is going to take a while)

$ vagrant basebox build centos60

• Check that it is functional

$ vagrant basebox validate centos60

• Build a Vagrant box file

$ vagrant basebox export centos60

• Import it to Vagrant

$ vagrant box add centos60 centos60.box

Using your new box

To spin off a new instance, run the usual Vagrant commands:

$ vagrant init centos60
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

Check out these instructions on how to set up Fabric so that it can talk to your Vagrant VM instances.