Files contained in this repo will create a Vagrant box running Ubuntu 14.04.1, with a quite complete build toolchain, common utilities and nodejs package. The resulting Vagrant .box file is ~650M as of the last build time.
Copy/paste should work.
git clone https://github.com/mszubrycht-pythian/packer_vagrant.git packer_vagrant
cd packer_vagrant
vagrant init
mkdir iso && cd iso
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.1/ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso
cd ../
git clone https://github.com/mszubrycht-pythian/packer_vagrant.git
./create_box
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
The entire process can be run unattended, it takes < 25 minutes on my MBP w/SSD to complete.
OpenStack prefers the taste of .qcow2 vm image format. To convert the .vmdk file to qcow2, run ./vmdk2qcow2.sh