Description

Building Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS desktop and server vagrant boxes using packer

Commands

• Building Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS desktop

make build_desktop

• Building Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 LTS server

make build_server

Vagrant Cloud Boxes

• server - aravindkumarsvgj/ubuntu_18_bionic_amd64_server
• desktop - aravindkumarsvgj/ubuntu_18_bionic_amd64_desktop

Details

• Virtualbox version - 5.1
• Virtualbox Guest Additions version - 5.2.8_KernelUbuntu r120774

Issues

• Please add the following lines in Vagrantfile for ssh keys related error.

config.ssh.username = "vagrant"
config.ssh.password = "vagrant"

• On starting the vagrant machine, If you're getting Shared folders related error.
  • Use latest vagrant binary
  • install vagrant-vbguest plugin

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

References

• Ubuntu Bionic Preseed