GRGrinningFool·Jul 22, 2026
Also, bento: https://github.com/chef/bento. No relation.
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Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms
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3 sourcesi used vagrant with libvirt/qemu at my last job and it worked just fine though...
the only problem i had was updating base boxes, but that was self inflicted because it was easier to make a function to delete them from the libvirt cache than maintaining proper versioning.
/edit: i just realized from your other comments that you're probably constraining yourself to prebuild baseboxes. you really shouldn't. its trivial to built them with packer [1] and there are lots of config files on github[2] to do just that. This makes it possible to really tweak them for full integration right after 'vagrant up'
[1] https://www.packer.io/intro/index.html
[2] https://github.com/chef/bento
In Vagrant 2.0Are there any open source Packer build configurations or anything else that can be used to reproduce the base boxes from scratch? I wouldn't usually run a base box that I can't also see/use the automated build scripts for.
For my own boxes (e.g. https://github.com/geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1604), I make sure to prominently link to Packer configs licensed under the MIT license (based on Chef's Bento project (https://github.com/chef/bento)).
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