Packer Centos template

Packer template to make VirtualBox images.

Notes

CentOS 64-bit VM, 10G disk, EPEL repo, Puppet 4, no SELinux, no firewall,

Packer version: 0.8.6

Usage

Installing Packer

Download the latest packer from http://www.packer.io/downloads.html

Prepare var file

cp vars.json.template vars-example.json

Example var file for CentOS 7.x:

{
  "iso_url": "/Users/lukaszr/Downloads/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso",
  "iso_checksum": "f90e4d28fa377669b2db16cbcb451fcb9a89d2460e3645993e30e137ac37d284",
  "iso_checksum_type": "sha256",
  "guest_additions_path": "VBoxGuestAdditions.iso",
  "redhat_release": "7.2"
}

Example var file for CentOS 6.x:

{
  "iso_url": "http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/6.7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.7-x86_64-minimal.iso",
  "iso_checksum": "9d3fec5897be6b3fed4d3dda80b8fa7bb62c616bbfd4bdcd27295ca9b764f498",
  "iso_checksum_type": "sha256",
  "guest_additions_path": "VBoxGuestAdditions.iso",
  "redhat_release": "6.7"
}

Running Packer

$ packer build -var-file=vars-example.json vagrant-centos.json