This is a Packer project to build Rocky Linux 9.4 Vagrant box on VirtualBox.

This project assumes no existing installed software (listed below) and everything will be created from scratch.

The following software must be installed on your local machine before you can use Packer to build this Vagrant box:

• Packer
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox
• Rocky Linux

Although not strictly necessary this is a recommended tree structure to get things going:

├── README.md
└── rocky94
    ├── http
    │   └── ks-rocky94.cfg
    ├── iso
    │   └── Rocky-9.4-x86_64-dvd.iso
    ├── output
    │   └── Rocky94.box
    ├── rocky94.pkr.hcl
    └── scripts
        ├── cleanup.sh
        ├── vagrant.sh
        └── virtualbox.sh

Unless you have a very fast Internet link I would suggest the Rocky Linux ISO is pre-downloaded prior to running.

For the homelab setup on VirtualBox I recommend that a separate host-only network is setup so you can have a private network of VMs. You will need to create a new host-only network - vboxnet0 - and create the IP range the network will use such as 172.16.0.0/24. Also be sure to enable DHCP for the network to make things easy.

• ks-rocky94.cfg - This is the kickstart file for the VM build
• rocky94.pkr.hcl - This is the main packer file
• cleanup.sh - Cleanup script after the VM has been created
• vagrant.sh - Setup the vagrant user
• virtualbox.sh - Mount the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

Once the packer build is complete the Vagrant box file will be saved to the output directory.

Make sure all the required software (listed above) is installed, then cd into the rocky94 directory and run:

$ packer build -force -timestamp-ui rocky94.pkr.hcl

You will need to add the box file to the Vagrant system before you can use it with Vagrant. Do the following:

$ cd output
$ vagrant box add Rocky94 Rocky94.box

MIT

These configurations are maintained by F.Tao.