Vagrant Cloud Images

Purpose of this project is to provide Vagrant Box images based on public colud images of various GNU/Linux distributions with no modifications at all (or, at least, the minimum possible).

distribution	version	vagrant box	method
AlmaLinux	9.4	almalinux-9.4	cloud-init injection
AlmaLinux	8.10	almalinux-8.10	cloud-init injection
Debian	12	debian-12	cloud-init injection
Debian	11	debian-11	cloud-init injection
Debian	10	debian-10	cloud-init injection
Fedora	40	fedora-40	cloud-init injection
Fedora	39	fedora-39	cloud-init injection
Ubuntu	24.04	ubuntu-24.04	cloud-init injection
Ubuntu	22.04	ubuntu-22.04	cloud-init injection
Ubuntu	20.04	ubuntu-20.04	cloud-init injection
Ubuntu	18.04	ubuntu-18.04	cloud-init injection
Ubuntu	16.04	ubuntu-16.04	cloud-init injection
Ubuntu	14.04	ubuntu-14.04	cloud-init injection

cloud-init injection

This method consists to inject a cloud-init configuration file under /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99_vagrant.cfg with a content similar to the following:

datasource_list: [ NoCloud, None ]
ssh_pwauth: True
users:
  - name: vagrant
    plain_text_passwd: vagrant
    sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
    shell: /bin/bash
    lock_passwd: false
    ssh_authorized_keys:
      # https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/tree/master/keys
      - 'ssh-rsa ... vagrant insecure public key'

That ensure the creation of Vagrant user during the first boot by the cloud-init service included in every GNU/Linux cloud images.

Packer is not used at all. The disk image are downloaded, mounted, injected, then packed in a tarball Box Vagrant Format.

Usage

There are multiple Vagrant providers available:

• libvirt
• qemu

libvirt

Install libvirt provider using the standard Vagrant plugin installation commnd:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt

Create a minimal Vagrantfile as follow:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "cloud-image/<choose-a-distro>"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
end

Start Vagrant:

vagrant up --provider=libvirt

Here a more exaustive example (see documentation for more info):

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

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vagrant.plugins = "vagrant-libvirt"

  config.vm.box = "cloud-image/<choose-a-distro>"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
  #config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "nfs", mount_options: ["vers=3,tcp"]

  config.vm.provider :libvirt do |libvirt|
    libvirt.driver = "kvm"
    libvirt.uri = 'qemu:///system'
    #libvirt.socket = '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock'
    #libvirt.host = 'localhost'
    #libvirt.username = ''
    #libvirt.password = ''
    #libvirt.id_ssh_key_file = "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa"
  end

  config.vm.define :node do |libvirt|
    #libvirt.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567
    #libvirt.vm.network :public_network, :dev => 'br0', :mode => 'bridge', :type => 'bridge'
    #libvirt.vm.network :public_network, :dev => 'br0', :mode => 'bridge', :type => 'bridge', :auto_config => false

    libvirt.vm.provider :libvirt do |domain|
      domain.memory = "1024"
      domain.cpus = "1"
      #domain.nested = true
      #domain.cpu_mode = 'host-passthrough'
      #domain.boot 'network'
      #domain.boot 'hd'
  
      #domain.storage :file, :size => '5G', :type => 'raw', :allow_existing => true
      #domain.storage :file, :device => 'cdrom', :path => '/mnt/linux.iso'
      #domain.graphics_type = 'none'
      #domain.graphics_port = 5901
      #domain.graphics_ip = '0.0.0.0'
    end

    #libvirt.vm.provision :shell, path: 'bootstrap.sh'
  end
end

qemu

Install qemu provider using the standard Vagrant plugin installation commnd:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-qemu

For an Apple Silicon, create a Vagrantfile as follow:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vagrant.plugins = "vagrant-qemu"

  config.vm.box = "cloud-image/debian-12"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true

  config.vm.provider :qemu do |qemu|
    qemu.machine = "virt,accel=hvf,highmem=off"
    qemu.cpu = "cortex-a72"
    qemu.smp = "1"
    qemu.memory = "512M"
  end
end

Start Vagrant:

vagrant up --provider=qemu