FreeBSD Packer template

Prerequisites:

• Install Vagrant
• Install Packer
• Clone this repo onto your machine

To create a vagrant box for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE:

• Build the Vagrant box with: packer build template-10.1.json
• Wait.
• Add the appropriate Vagrant box for your system. For example, on VMware: vagrant box add --name FreeBSD-10.1 FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-vmware.box

to build virtualbox image only:

packer build -only=virtualbox-iso template-10.1.json

To use any Vagrant box:

• Initialize vagrant using: vagrant init --minimal <box name>
• Start the Vagrant VM: vagrant up
• Connect to the VM: vagrant ssh
• Hack away

Notes:

• The VM is set to have 1024MB of RAM and a 20GB drive
• When bringing vagrant boxes up for the first time, you will need sudo privileges to add entries in /etc/exports to allow vagrant to mount /vagrant in the guest. See Vagrant NFS synced folders