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README.md

Packer Arch

Packer Arch is a bare bones Packer template and installation script that can be used to generate a Vagrant base box for Arch Linux. The template was designed specifically for use with the VMware provider, although it shouldn't need too much tweaking to generate a VirtualBox VM.

Overview

My goal was to roughly duplicate the attributes from a DigitalOcean Arch Linux droplet:

  • 64-bit
  • 20 GB Disk
  • 512 MB Memory
  • Only a single /root partition
  • No swap
  • Includes the base and base-devel package groups
  • OpenSSH is also installed and enabled on boot

The installation script follows the official installation guide pretty closely, with a few tweaks to ensure functionality within a VM. Beyond that, the only customizations to the machine are related to the vagrant user and the steps recommended for any base box.

Usage

Assuming that you already have Packer, VMware Fusion (or VMware Workstation), and Vagrant with the VMware provider installed, you should be good to clone this repo and go:

$ git clone https://github.com/elasticdog/packer-arch.git
$ cd packer-arch/
$ packer build arch-template.json

Then you can import the generated box into Vagrant:

$ vagrant box add arch packer_vmware_vmware.box

Known Issues

The official VMware Tools do not currently support Arch Linux, and the Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) require extensive patching in order to compile correctly with a Linux 3.10 series kernel. So for the time being, I have not included support for the tools.

No tools means that the shared folder feature will not work, and when you run vagrant up to launch a VM based on this box, you will see the following error message:

The HGFS kernel module was not found on the running virtual machine. This must be installed for shared folders to work properly. Please install the VMware tools within the guest and try again. Note that the VMware tools installation will succeed even if HGFS fails to properly install. Carefully read the output of the VMware tools installation to verify the HGFS kernel modules were installed properly.

License

Packer Arch is provided under the terms of the ISC License.

Copyright © 2013, Aaron Bull Schaefer.