Testing on various platforms using VM

Requirements (tested on Mac OS X 10.10.)

• Vagrant (tested with 1.7.4)
• VirtualBox (tested with 4.3.2) (not running with 4.3.2, tested with 5.0.8)
• local git repository directory called $gitlocal (so that the vagrant machines can be shared with co-developers)

Procedure

• enforce requirements
• move to local git root cd $gitlocal
• create a .gitignore file if it does not exist already
• put the folder .vagrant in the .gitignore file to allow the usage by different users
• initialize vagrant
  • vagrant init
  • a Vagrantfile is initialized
  • a folder .vagrant is initialized:
• download the virtual machine image you want to use
  • https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ provides a great number of machines
  • the machines listed in the table below were tested
  • use vagrant box add $image, whereas $image is of the format debian/wheezy64
  • you will be asked for the provider of your choice. select yours (tested with virtualBox)
  • this may take a while ...
• setup the downloaded box as box to be used by the provider on startup, by editing Vagrantfile s.t. it contains

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "debian/wheezy64"
end

• run the machine with vagrant up
• the content of the folder, vagrant was initialized in will be provided on the VM under /vagrant

Virtual Machines

The following machines were tested with Vagrant and VirtualBox on MacOS X 10.10. Installation and execution of SNAp2 was successfully tested on these machines. For detailed installation and execution procedures, please refer to HOWTO Install and HOWTO Run.

OS	Version	32/64 bit	hashicorp name
Debian	7 "wheezy"	64	debian/wheezy64