Base Box Creation

A ruby script used to help in creating a macOS virtual machine box. You can also use it to install a new update to the VM before creating the box.

Setup

Running Base Box Creation requires setup of the following:

1. Installation of rbenv.
2. Installation of vagrant
3. Installation of parallels-desktop
4. Configuration of config.conf file.

Running

If you are unable to have install gems, you can simply run the manual program which will take you through all the steps of creating a base box manually.

ruby manual_creation.rb

Otherwise, you can execute the script by running the following in the base_box_creation main directory.

ruby automate_creation.rb

config.conf

Configuration file used by Automate Creation program. All the fields need to be filled in order for Automate Creation to create a VM, connect to it, update and install a package and package it into a base box.

Create the config.conf file inside the base_box_creation directory containing all of the data below with their specific values in a vertical format.

For example:

vm_box = 'mac-1.0'
vm_box_url = '/Users/dsusilo/.chef/Base_Box_Creation/mac-1.0.box'
..
..

vm_box

The name of the VM vagrant box to be used to create the VM.

vm_box_url

The url or path to the VM box in order to add it to vagrant.

vm_box_version

Version of the VM box to be used.

linked_clone

A flag to determine whether the VM created will be a full clone or not of the VM Box.

base_box_name

The name of the base box to be created.

update_name

The name of the update to install unto the VM before it is packaged into a base box.

Dependencies

Install the following gems using gem install:

• parseconfig
• net-ssh
• ed25519 (>= 1.2, < 2.0)
• bcrypt_pbkdf (>= 1.0, < 2.0)