VirtualBox Guest Additions in Vagrant image

[makeamark1]

It seems that the CentOS Cloud image for Vagrant (using the VirtualBox provider) does not include the VirtualBox Guest Additions:

$ vagrant init centos/7
$ vagrant up
==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
    default: No guest additions were detected on the base box for this VM! Guest
    default: additions are required for forwarded ports, shared folders, host only
    default: networking, and more. If SSH fails on this machine, please install
    default: the guest additions and repackage the box to continue.

As mentioned in the log output above, the VirtualBox Guest Additions are useful for many purposes in day-to-day work with virtual machines. Would you please consider including them by default in the CentOS Cloud image for Vagrant (for the VirtualBox provider)?

[kbsingh]

hi @Vsipuli if you were able to help package up these additions, we can get them included in.

[dhampik]

That is true, guest additions are needed a lot. Unfortunately I don't know how to package them up, coz I'm not very familiar with CentOS, but I need it for my current project... That is an unpleasant surprise that they are not present by default.

[dhampik]

And due to the lack of Guest Additions, that vagrant box uses rsync to share a folder with host system. And that is bad, because it is one-ways synchronization.

[kbsingh]

you should be able to turn off the rsync feature in your Vagrantfile locally.

w.r.t the guest additions, the blocker is basically having them packaged up somewhere.

[dhampik]

That is not a problem to disable rsync, the problem is to enable default sync folder type which is 'VirtualBox', because it is not available when Virtualbox Guest Additions are not installed.

If it'll be helpful to anyone, for now I decided to use this image https://atlas.hashicorp.com/avinashkolluru/boxes/centos7-1508.01-bzip2 with vagrant-vbguest plugin to vagrant, according to that issue dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest#167

Of cause the official CentOS box would be much better.

[makeamark1]

@kbsingh Good to hear that you are ready to accept contributions. If I find some time I might look into this.

[mmckinst]

pull request #28 will allow the vagrant-vbguest plugin to work until dotless releases a new version

I can make a pull request that includes the VirtualBox Guest Additions as part of the base image but is there any way for me to run that koji command myself or is that 'cbs' some internal centos build server? I've got a Fedora account if that matters.

[kbsingh]

@mmckinst cheers, merged in the req for bzip2; Unfortunately, the images for 2015-Sept update were built last week, so this change wont be included in the images released today - however it will make it into the next build for CentOS-7, 2015-Oct, due on the 28th/Oct.

Ideally, we should get the additions packaged up ( from the gpl souces ) into rpms and have them built at cbs ( http://cbs.centos.org ), and then reference them in the kickstarts. We dont interface with the Fedora Koji, but run our own accounting setup.

[dhampik]

you should be able to turn off the rsync feature in your Vagrantfile locally.

It took me some time to understand how do that.
I was trying to disable it with the following:

config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', disabled: true

But the thing is that this image does not use the standard path (which I saw in many other images).
So, to disable rsync you should do the following instead:

config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/home/vagrant/sync", disabled: true

Hopefully it will save time for others who wants to do that.

[kbsingh]

thanks for the note, I've added it to the README.md file

[nzhuk98]

Added a note on setting up VirtualBox shared folders with a standard /vagrant path based on this discussion to README.md in pull request #33.

[tomor]

Am I right when I expect that vagrant box "centos/7" created by this build script should be available at https://atlas.hashicorp.com/centos/boxes/7 ?
I can see that currently it's 2 months old and when I use it (config.vm.box = "centos/7") the bzip2 is still not there and guest additions installation fails. (... bzip2: command not found)

As fallback I started to use https://atlas.hashicorp.com/avinashkolluru/boxes/centos7-1508.01-bzip2 , but the official one would be better.

Thanks for the info.

[dhampik]

We are using config.vm.box = "centos/7" with vagrant 1.7.3 and latest vitualbox and vagrant-vbguest plugin. It works for us (at least worked about a month ago when I re-created the box the last time)

[mmckinst]

@tomor You might have an old version of the box downloaded. If the output of vagrant box outdated --global says its outdated, try using vagrant box update --box centos/7 to bring it up to date.