vbox-buildroot-vagrant

External buildroot to build a minimal VirtualBox disk image with busybox, Vagrant ready.

Some note

• the -lamp- config enable apache2, php (fpm-php), mysqld, phpmyadmin, msmtp, cron
• ipv4 only, ipv6 disabled
• openssl/ssh enabled
• vagrant user/home
• vboxguest, vboxsf kernel modules and mount.vboxsf (for directory sharing)
• current supported version for vbox guest drivers & commands: 5.0.10
• /vagrant directory shared with host
• vagrant insecure pub key in authorized keys

How to build

Assuming sources are in your home ~/src/

cd ~/src/${buildroot}
# apply package-php_mk-pcre.diff
# apply package-mysql_mk-innodb_plugin.diff
make BR2_EXTERNAL=~/src/vbox-buildroot-vagrant \
	BR2_DEFCONFIG=~/src/vbox-buildroot-vagrant/configs/vbox64-vagrant_defconfig <optional-br-target>

Once .config and output/.br-external are created usual buildroot targets can be used without appending BR2_EXTERNAL or BR2_DEFCONFIG to make.

The build generate bzImage and rootfs.tar into directory ${buildroot}/output/images/.

Creating raw image and converting to vdi

The script genvdi-syslinux.sh included to help to generate the VirtualBox VDI disk image, it use sudo and require some host package to be pre-installed (see the script). genvdi-syslinux.sh is not included in the buildroot's build process, use it manually (at your own risk).

• use syslinux on a vfat partition
• no initrd used yet

Vagrantfile

• add config.ssh.shell = "/bin/sh"
• optionally for -lamp- configs:
  • add config.vm.network "httpd", guest: 80, host: 8080 http://localhost:8080
  • add config.vm.synced_folder "htdocs", "/usr/htdocs" and create a local directory htdocs/(the default DocumentRoot for installed apache2)

Add/Remove virtualbox VM to vagrant

## add
vagrant package --base ${VMNAME}     # the name of the current VirtualBox VM
vagrant box add busybox package.box  # busybox and package just names see vagrant manual
#vagrant init busybox                # (needed only once, first time)
vagrant up

## remove
vagrant destroy
vagrant box remove busybox
rm package.box

phpmyadmin

phpMyAdmin is installed without configuration, with the exception for AllowNoPassword = true in config.inc.php Access at http://localhost:8080/phpmyadmin/

MySQL server

MySQL is installed as it is, without configuration, boot with the GUI active to see suggested steps by MySQL scripts.