Vagrant

layout: post title: ‘Vagrant’ date: ‘2022-07-16’ categories: ‘general’ —

Vagrant was once a very cool thing, but has fallen out of favor recently because of Docker and containers. I think it still has its place, but the configuration vars can be difficult to get right. Here’s what works well for me.

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

   config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
   config.ssh.insert_key = false

   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.gui = true
     vb.name = "PExample"
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "2"]
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--vram", "12"] 
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024*8]

    ####### code taken from SO to get space larger
	# Validate this should be run it once
  if ARGV[0] == "up" && ! File.exist?("./disk1.vdi")
    vb.customize [
      'createhd',
      '--filename', "./disk1.vdi",
      '--format', 'VDI',
      # 10GB
      '--size', 50 * 1024
    ]

    vb.customize [
      'storageattach', :id,
      '--storagectl', 'SATA Controller',
      '--port', 1, '--device', 0,
      '--type', 'hdd', '--medium',
      './disk1.vdi'
    ]
  end

	####### end code from SO
  end

  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "./scripts/install.sh"  
  config.vm.synced_folder "./files/", "/vagrant/files/"
end