Debian 7.8.0 Packer template

This template builds a VirtualBox image based on Debian Wheezy 7.6.0. The VM is configured to use 4 GB of RAM and 2 CPU. Those settings, as many others, can be changed in the debian-7.7.0-wheezy.json file.

Usage

1. Be sure you have Packer and VirtualBox installed in your system.
2. Clone this repository and go into it.
   • git clone git@github.com:SiM07/packer-debian_7.git
   • cd packer-debian_7.8.0.git
3. Run Packer to build the VM.
   • packer build debian-7.8.0-wheezy.json

A VM box file should be created in the working directory under the name packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box.

Running the built VM

You can now use Vagrant to run it by creating a Vagrantfile with this content:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "debian-7.6.0"
  config.vm.box_url = "file://packer_debian-7_virtualbox.box"
end

And leverage and access the VM as usual with Vagrant: vagrant up vagrant ssh

Credits

Based on the nice template written by Tech-Angels.