Create vagrant boxes easily (Veewee)

Vagrant is a great tool to help development team, and even individuals with multiple projects. But it does not create VirtualMachines (VMs) in a easy way.

Veewee is a tool to help create VMs in a automated way, based on Templates. It’s developed in Ruby and allows to create vagrant boxes, virtualbox, KVM and VMWare images.

On this example, I’m going to create a VM to work with Vagrant and it will be based on Debian 7 AMD64 ( Debian-7.0-b4-amd64-netboot ).

Lets start!

First step, cloning the repository:

git clone https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee.git
cd veewee
gem install bundler
bundle install

In the veewee/templates folder, you can find a list of all available templates for your virtual machines.

$ veewee vbox define 'debian7b4' 'Debian-7.0-b4-amd64-netboot'

The basebox ‘debian7b4′ has been succesfully created from the template ‘Debian-7.0-b4-amd64-netboot’

You can now check / edit the definition files stored in 'definitions/debian7b4'. With the template for your VM ready, just execute “build” command and wait:

$ veewee vbox build ‘debian7b4′

This should take around 10-15minutes depending on your machine and connection.

Veewee also has Tests to verify you VM.

$ veewee vbox validate ‘debian7b4′

After this, your VM is ready to be exported

$ vagrant basebox export ‘debian7b4′

And now you have a box ready to use with Vagrant.