GovTechStack.sg Centos Training VM

This is a Packer script to build a Centos 7 Desktop image for use in GovTechStack.sg training sessions.

Pushed to vagrant cloud as govtechstacksg/centos

Prerequisites

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

Vagrant download link

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

VirtualBox download link

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Creating the Vagrantfile

touch Vagrantfile

Running the Vagrant image

Copy the following text to a file Vagrantfile

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "govtechstacksg/centos"

  # Forwarded Ports
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 22, host: 22
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3000, host: 3000
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8080, host: 8080
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8443, host: 8443
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 80
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 443, host: 443

  # Configure and optimize according to your system specs
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.gui = true
    vb.cpus = 2
    vb.memory = "4096"
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--clipboard", "bidirectional"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--draganddrop", "bidirectional"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usbxhci", "on"]
  end


  # config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
  #   sudo yum install -y your-package-here
  # SHELL
end

Run the command:

vagrant up

If you have a previous image already built, run the following commands to remove them. Then run vagrant up

vagrant destroy --force
vagrant box remove govtechstacksg/centos

As per Vagrant box conventions, the credentials to use the image are as follows:

Username: vagrant
Password: vagrant

Possible Errors

Stderr: VBoxManage: error: Implementation of the USB 3.0 controller not found!

To fix this problem, either install the 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack' or disable USB 3.0 support in the VM settings

• Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack