packer-ubuntu

Use packer to create virtualbox images of ubuntu.

Stating the obvious, this solution assumes packer and virtualbox are already installed. If you are in need of a simple way to do that on the mac, consider the following steps

###Install Homebrew, Cask, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Packer

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew cask install virtualbox
brew cask install vagrant
brew cask install packer

###Building examples ..

• 'make' will build a ubuntu 14.04 box
• 'make ubuntu-14.10' will build the 14.10 version of the box.
• 'make install-14.10' will add the box to the vagrant cache of known boxes
• make -clean will delete the .box
• make -clobber will call clean and it will delete the local ISOs.

###Complete example to get a VM

1. make ubuntu-14.10 (or 'make' - default is just 14.10)
2. make install-14.10
3. cd vagrant
4. vagrant up u14_10 (or 'vagrant up' - default is just 14.10)
5. vagrant ssh
6. you are now in the VM