Arch-boxes provides automated builds of the Arch Linux releases for different providers and post-processors. Check the providers or post-processor sections if you want to know which are currently supported.
You'll need the following dependencies:
- packer (for basic usage)
- vagrant (for vagrant images)
- qemu (for libvirt provider support)
- virtualbox (for virtualbox support)
- VMware Workstation Pro (for vmware support)
Here is an overview over all variables you can set in vagrant.json or
local.json:
iso_url: the url to the ISO. This can be an url or a filepath beginning withfile://iso_checksum_url: the url to the checksum file. This can be an url or a filepath beginning withfile://iso_checksum_type: this specifies the hashing algorithm for the checksum.disk_size: this specifices the disk size in bytes.memory: this specifies the size of the RAM in bytes.cpus: this specifies the number of cores for your VM.headless: this sets GUI on or off.vagrant_cloud_token: here you can specify the vagrant cloud token for uploading your box to the vagrantcloud. If you don't have a vagrant cloud token you can ignore this variable. Without a token the boxes will be built, but the upload step step will fail.write_zeroes: this variable is empty. if you set any string in this variable it will fill the box with zeros to reduce the size. DO NOT use this if you are running a SSD. It will harm your SSDs lifetimeboot_wait: this specifies the time packer should wait for booting up the ISO before entering any command.
If you want to build the boxes locally without uploading them to the Vagrant
cloud you need to edit the local.json before you start the build. set the
right iso_url and the right iso_checksum_url. Then you can start the build
for virtualbox only with the following command:
packer build -only=virtualbox-iso local.json
The official builds are done on our Arch Linux Buildserver.
packer build vagrant.json
- virtualbox-iso
- qemu/libvirt
- vmware-iso
- vagrant
If the parallel build fails this is mostly because the KVM device is
already occupied by a different provider. You can use the build option
parallel=false for building the images in a queue instead of parallel.
But don't be surprised that that the build process will take longer. Any
other option is to disable KVM support for all other providers except
one.
Start packer with -parallel=false:
packer build -parallel=false vagrant.json