Packer Templates mainly for the Vagrant libvirt and virtualbox provider

Customized+Clean/Minimal boxes for libvirt and virtualbox provider

Github repository for bug reports or feature requests:

https://github.com/ruzickap/packer-templates/

Vagrant Cloud repository for the images build by these templates

https://app.vagrantup.com/peru

Requirements

Login Credentials

(root/Administrator password is "vagrant" or is not set )

Username: vagrant
Password: vagrant

VM Specifications

Drivers / Devices added for the VMs for specific providers.

Libvirt

VirtIO dynamic Hard Disk (up to 50 GiB)
VirtIO Network Interface
QXL Video Card (SPICE display)
Channel Device (com.redhat.spice.0)

VirtualBox

SATA Disk

Configuration

Customized Linux installation

there are usually many customization depends on distribution - all are described in Ansible playbook.
added packages: see the Common list and Debian list or CentOS list
mouse disabled in Midnight Commander + other MC customizations
preconfigured snmpd, vim, screen
logrotate using xz instead of gzip
logwatch is running once per week instead of once per day
sshd is using only the strong algorithms
sysstat (sar) is running every minute instead of every 5 minutes

Minimal Linux installation

en_US.UTF-8
keymap for standard US keyboard
UTC timezone
NTP enabled (default configuration)
full-upgrade
unattended-upgrades
/dev/vda1 mounted on / using ext4/xfs filesystem (all files in one partition)
no swap

Minimal Windows installation

UTC timezone
IEHarden disabled
Home Page set to "about:blank"
First Run Wizard disabled
Firewall allows Remote Desktop connections
AutoActivation skipped
DoNotOpenInitialConfigurationTasksAtLogon set to true
WinRM (ssl) enabled
New Network Window turned off
Administrator account enabled
EnableLUA
Windows image was finalized using sysprep: unattended.xml

Additional Drivers installed for libvirt boxes - VirtIO

Installed during installation:

NetKVM: VirtIO Network driver
qxldod: QXL graphics driver
viostor: VirtIO Block driver (VirtIO SCSI controller driver)

Installed components via Ansible playbook win.yml for Windows:

vioscsi: Support for VirtIO SCSI pass-through controller
Balloon: VirtIO Memory Balloon driver
viorng: VirtIO RNG Device driver
vioser: VirtIO Serial Driver
vioinput: VirtIO Input Driver - support for new QEMU input devices virtio-keyboard-pci, virtio-mouse-pci, virtio-tablet-pci, virtio-input-host-pci
pvpanic: QEMU pvpanic device driver
qemu-ga: Qemu Guest Agent

Additional Drivers installed for virtualbox boxes

VirtualBox Guest Additions

How to build images remotely

If you want to build the images yourself you will need passwordless ssh access to the latest Fedora server and locally installed Ansible. The server should not have IPs from this range 192.168.121.0/24 - this is used by Vagrant + libvirt by default.

Then you just need to modify the REMOTE_IP and REMOTE_USER in build_remote_ssh.sh file.

The build_remote_ssh.sh script will connect to your Fedora server, downloads necessary packages (initiate reboot if necessary for kernel update) and start building the images using Packer. It will also test the newly created images by Vagrant. The whole procedure will take several hours. You can check the progress by sshing to the server and checking the log files in /tmp/ directory.

How to build images locally

If you have necessary software installed+configured on your local machine you can use the following commands to build the images. Here are the examples with build script build.sh and "pure packer way":

Ubuntu:

# Ubuntu Server
./build.sh ubuntu-server-18.04:libvirt
NAME=ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=18.04 UBUNTU_TYPE=server UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build ubuntu-server.json
./build.sh ubuntu-server-16.04:libvirt
NAME=ubuntu-16.04-server-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=16.04.4 UBUNTU_TYPE=server UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build ubuntu-server.json
./build.sh ubuntu-server-14.04:libvirt
NAME=ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=14.04.5 UBUNTU_TYPE=server UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build ubuntu-server.json

# Ubuntu Desktop
./build.sh ubuntu-desktop-18.04:libvirt
NAME=ubuntu-18.10-desktop-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=18.10 UBUNTU_TYPE=desktop UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build ubuntu-desktop.json
./build.sh ubuntu-desktop-17.10:libvirt
NAME=ubuntu-17.10-desktop-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=17.10.1 UBUNTU_TYPE=desktop UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build ubuntu-desktop.json

# Ubuntu Server - customized
./build.sh my_ubuntu-server-18.04:libvirt
NAME=my_ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=18.04 UBUNTU_TYPE=server UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build my_ubuntu-server.json
./build.sh my_ubuntu-server-16.04:libvirt
NAME=my_ubuntu-16.04-server-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=16.04.4 UBUNTU_TYPE=server UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build my_ubuntu-server.json
./build.sh my_ubuntu-server-14.04:libvirt
NAME=my_ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64 UBUNTU_VERSION=14.04.5 UBUNTU_TYPE=server UBUNTU_ARCH=amd64 packer build my_ubuntu-server.json

Windows:

# Windows Server
./build.sh windows-2012_r2:libvirt windows-2012_r2:virtualbox
NAME=windows-server-2012-r2-standard-x64-eval WINDOWS_VERSION=2012 VIRTIO_WIN_ISO=/var/tmp/packer/virtio-win.iso ISO_CHECKSUM=6612b5b1f53e845aacdf96e974bb119a3d9b4dcb5b82e65804ab7e534dc7b4d5 ISO_URL=http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/2/A/62A76ABB-9990-4EFC-A4FE-C7D698DAEB96/9600.17050.WINBLUE_REFRESH.140317-1640_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-IR3_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV9.ISO packer build -only=qemu windows.json
./build.sh windows-2016:libvirt windows-2016:virtualbox
NAME=windows-server-2016-standard-x64-eval WINDOWS_VERSION=2016 VIRTIO_WIN_ISO=/var/tmp/packer/virtio-win.iso ISO_CHECKSUM=1ce702a578a3cb1ac3d14873980838590f06d5b7101c5daaccbac9d73f1fb50f ISO_URL=http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/1/4/9/149D5452-9B29-4274-B6B3-5361DBDA30BC/14393.0.161119-1705.RS1_REFRESH_SERVER_EVAL_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO packer build -only=qemu windows.json

# Windows 10
./build.sh windows-10:libvirt windows-10:virtualbox
NAME=windows-10-enterprise-x64-eval WINDOWS_VERSION=10 VIRTIO_WIN_ISO=/var/tmp/packer/virtio-win.iso ISO_CHECKSUM=3d39dd9bd37db5b3c80801ae44003802a9c770a7400a1b33027ca474a1a7c691 ISO_URL=http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/5/D/65D18931-F626-4A35-AD5B-F5DA41FE6B76/16299.15.170928-1534.rs3_release_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_x64FRE_en-us.iso packer build -only=qemu windows.json

# Windows 10 - customized
./build.sh my_windows-10:libvirt my_windows-10:virtualbox
NAME=my_windows-10-enterprise-x64-eval WINDOWS_VERSION=10 VIRTIO_WIN_ISO=/var/tmp/packer/virtio-win.iso ISO_CHECKSUM=3d39dd9bd37db5b3c80801ae44003802a9c770a7400a1b33027ca474a1a7c691 ISO_URL=http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/5/D/65D18931-F626-4A35-AD5B-F5DA41FE6B76/16299.15.170928-1534.rs3_release_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_x64FRE_en-us.iso packer build -only=qemu my_windows.json

Helper scripts

build.sh - build single image specified on command line
build_all.sh - builds all images
build_all_remote_ssh.sh - connects to remote Ubuntu server, install the necessary packages for building images and execute build_all.sh
vagrant_init_destroy_boxes.sh - tests all *.box images in the current directory using vagrant add/up/ssh/winrm/destroy

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