THIS REPO IS DEPRECATED

If you wish to build the ERPNext VM images for the current versions, please check out the bench repository for more information.

ERPNext VM Builder

Steps to build a vm image

• Install VirtualBox
• Download and place a base.ova ubuntu base image in the current directory.
• Download packer binary from and place in the current directory
• ./packer build vm.json builds a new Production vm.
• ./packer build vm-develop.json builds a new Development vm and a Vagrant Box.

How it works

Packer imports the base image in a virtual machine and boots it. It runs the following

• scripts/install_ansible.sh sets up ansible on the vm.
• The ansible/vm.yml playbook sets up the dependencies, installs a bench and sets up a site. It also sets up production if needed.
• scripts/set_message.sh sets welcome message (with update instructions) in the vm.
• scripts/zerofree.sh writes zero to all the free space in the disk, it shrinks the disk image.
• Vagrantfile is the configuration that is used for the Vagrant Box

For a build server

Running the build.py script builds the VMs and puts them in ~/public. It also creates md5 hash files for every VM created.