Packer VM builder

Build a new Vagrant base box for VMWare Fusion based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64

• ntp
• avahi-daemon
• build-essential
• chkconfig
• curl
• git-core
• ssl-cert
• unzip
• Linux headers and DKMS
• Defaults to Europe/London timezone
• Nukes apparmor
• Python Setuptools for easy_install and pip
• No root login allowed
• Standard no-password vagrant user
• VMWare Tools installed
• VirtualBox Guest Additions Installed

Installation

Install the correct Packer for your system.

packer build ubuntu-trusty.json

Once this has completed, there will be an ubuntu-trusty.box file th the provider included in the file name in the current directory.

This can be imported to Vagrant with

vagrant box add ubuntu-trusty-<type> /path/to/ubuntu-precise.<type>.box --provider [vmware_fusion,virtualbox]