boxes

boxes takes the complexity out of building custom Vagrant boxes.

It's a command line tool which provides a set of templates and scripts to combine as you need. There are also a set of pre-build boxes which are regenerated regularly.

[sudo] gem install boxes

boxes leans on Packer and VirtualBox, VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation for building boxes and these will need to available in your $PATH.

boxes is driven by the boxes command line tool, and works with artifacts inside it's own working directory. You need to specify a name for the build, a template to work with and the output provider. Something like so:

boxes build --name=trusty64-empty --template=ubuntu/trusty64 --provider=vmware

This will build a file called trusty64-empty.box in the current directory.

There's lots more to boxes than building simple empty Vagrant boxes like this, which can be see in the inline help.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/nickcharlton/boxes/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Copyright (c) 2013 Nick Charlton nick@nickcharlton.net