Hello World from OSS Silicon Valley

_ Prerequisite

• Virtual Box (You can refer HowToUse/VirtualBox/4.3)

_ Install&Setup

Step.1

Download and runinstaller.

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads

Step.2

Click Next button.

Step.3

Check the accept and click next button.

Step.4

Choose install folder and click next button.

Step.5

Choose install folder and click finish button.

_ HowToUse

_ Create Vagrantfile

Step.1

Execute the following command to create init file.

$ vagrant init <Guest OS name> <box file path>

Example

$ vagrant init centos-6-x64 http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/centos-64-x64-vbox4210.box

Puppet Labs Vagrant Boxes http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/

Chef Bento project https://github.com/opscode/bento

Step.2

Edit Vagrantfile which is created by vagrant init as needed

$ vi Vagrantfile

_ Launch guestOS from command line

Step.1

Launch guest OS. In the first launch, vagrant download box file to remote server, but after it, vagrant try to launch guest OS with the local virtual box file. Initial root password is "vagrant".

$ vagrant up

Step.3

Connect to guest OS from command line.

$ vagrant ssh

Step.5

Shutdown guest OS.

$ vagrant halt

_ Launch guestOS from GUI (Virtual Box)

Step.1

Launch vagrant.

$ vagrant up

Step.2

Connect with terminal.

$ vagrant ssh

Step.3

Change user to root. The initial password for root is "vagrant".

$ su - root

Step.4

Install X WIndow System and Desktop utilities.

# yum -y groupinstall "X Window System" "Desktop" "General Purpose Desktop"

Step.5

Change the inittab.

# vi /etc/inittab

(Before)

id:3:initdefault:

(After)

id:5:initdefault:

Step.6

Shutdown the system.

(Exit from root)

# exit

(Exit from vagrant ssh)

$ exit

(Shutdown guest OS)

$ vagrant halt

Step.7

Edit Vagrantfile as follows.

config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
 # Don't boot with headless mode
 vb.gui = true
#
#   # Use VBoxManage to customize the VM. For example to change memory:
#   vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
end

Step.8

Launch guest OS and GUI will be show up.

$ vagrant up

_ Enable ssh access to guest server

Step.1

Edit Vagrant file.

$ vi Vagrant

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
# xxx
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
# xxx

Step.2

Reboot Vagrant then you can access via ssh specifying IP address. (Default ID and password are "vagrant".)

$ vagrant halt
$ vagrant up
$ ssh 192.168.33.10

_ Author

S.Yatsuzuka