Create Vagrant boxes of the latest SmartOS platform image.

This repository includes scripts to help create SmartOS Vagrant boxes. The box created will be a Vagrant-capable global zone, into which local zones can be installed with the vagrant plugin vagrant-smartos-zones.

• VirtualBox >= 4.3
• Vagrant >= 1.5.2

Download the latest SmartOS platform image and turn it into a VirtualBox VM.

./bin/mksmartvm

When the VM spins up in VirtualBox, use the default networking options. Set the root password to be vagrant.

Now log in via ssh:

ssh localhost -p 2222 -l root

wget -q -O- --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vagrant-smartos/vagrant-smartos-packager/master/bin/prepare_global_zone \
 | bash -s

This will install custom services that will load on boot, updating the image to ensure that users will persist between reboots. By default, everything except /usbkey and /zones and /opt/custom will reset between boots, so we have to do some tweaking.

Now run the following:

wget -q -O- --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vagrant-smartos/vagrant-smartos-packager/master/bin/prepare_gz_users \
 | bash -s

This will create a vagrant user. By default Vagrant expects the vagrant user and root to have the password set to vagrant.

Now clean up some scraps before shutting it down and boxifying:

wget -q -O- --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vagrant-smartos/vagrant-smartos-packager/master/bin/cleanup_gz \
 | bash -s

If you are creating a box with an image already imported, instead of the above instructions you can jump straight to:

wget -q -O- --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vagrant-smartos/vagrant-smartos-packager/master/bin/prepare_for_lz \
  | bash -s [image_uuid]

If sudo will be required in the global zone, run the following command:

wget -q -O- --no-check-certificate https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vagrant-smartos/vagrant-smartos-packager/master/bin/install_sudo \
 | bash -s

Now stop the VM, and run the following command to load it into Vagrant:

./bin/boxify

What to name the box?

• SmartOS-<platform_image>-<image_type>-<image_version>
• SmartOS-20140404T001635Z
• SmartOS-20140404T001635Z-base64-13.4.1

Although these box names are pretty long, they don't have to match the box name in Vagrant Cloud. As a file name, this encapsulates all the variables that went into its creation.

Vagrant Cloud links to these boxes can be more terse, and rely on versioning to abstract away much of this detail.

The SmartOS global zone mounts / as a ramdisk with a size of 262M. When using type rsync, to sync the local directory into the global zone, ensure that it is very lightweight.

In order to use 'rsync' with a larger directory, you'll need to disable the normal mountpoint and create a new one on a persisted disk.

config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/zones/vagrant", type: "rsync"
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true

Synced folders of type nfs will work, pending a pull request on Vagrant.

When making a pull request, make sure to /cc @sax in the description. Otherwise I don't seem to get notified.