vagrant-libcloud-helper

A Vagrant plugin used by libcloud-vagrant to help setting up VirtualBox instances.

At the moment only VirtualBox instances are supported.

vagrant-libcloud-helper does the following to your VirtualBox Vagrant boxes:

• Allocate all SATA ports of the first SATA interface, so that disks may be hot-plugged once the machine is up. If no SATA controller is found, one will be created.

Like all Vagrant plugins:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-libcloud-helper

If you want to use this plugin outside libcloud-vagrant, you just need to enable the bits you want.

The following Vagrantfile snippet activates the allocation of all SATA ports (A new SATA controller will be created if none is found):

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

  if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-libcloud-helper")
    config.libcloud_helper.allocate_sata_ports = 30
  end

  # [..]
end

By default no SATA ports will be allocated.

This plugin has been tested under 64-bit Linux with:

• Vagrant 1.6.3
• VirtualBox 4.3.14

Most of the code here was taken from the vagrant-persistent-storage plugin.

• The config parameter config.libcloud_helper.allocate_sata_ports is now an integer, representing the number of SATA ports to allocate.

• Initial release.