Vagrant is great, but the boxes needs some love:
- Set correct timezone
- Set package repository mirror closer to you
- Upgrade all packages to latest versions
- Make sure VirtualBox Guest Additions are up-to-date
This project is a collection of scripts and Makefiles to achieve this in an automated and repeatable way.
- Vagrant (duh..)
- The vagrant-vbguest plugin:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
$ cd precise32-simlun
$ make
Now the latest version of an Ubuntu 12.04 box is added to your local vagrant
cache as precise32-simlun-latest. You may also point directly at
precise32-simlun/dist/precise32-simlun-latest.box which will always link to
the latest build. Consider putting the boxes you create on a NAS so you may
reach them from your Continuous Integration servers or similar.