Vagrant Desktop Images

Ubuntu Desktop images for Vagrant

Why?

Because some people like Vagrant and Canonical only publishes server, cloud images.

How?

By taking the vanilla Ubuntu cloud images and installing ubuntu-desktop meta-package and setting up lightdm to automatically login the vagrant user.

Usage (premade images)

These instructions should work on Linux, OS X and Cygwin.

Recommended on Ubuntu, install apt-cacher-ng:

    sudo apt-get install apt-cacher-ng

Make the Ubuntu 14.04 image (i386 version):

    make trusty-desktop-i386.box
    vagrant box add -f trusty-desktop-i386 trusty-desktop-i386.box

Then create this Vagrantfile somewhere and 'vagrant up' it:

    # -*- mode: ruby -*-
    # vi: set ft=ruby sw=2 ts=2 :

    Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
      # Use a basic trusty desktop image from git://github.com/zyga/vagrant-destop-images.git
      config.vm.box = "trusty-desktop-i386"
      # TODO: offer premade images for download
      config.vm.box_url = ""

      # Tweak VirtualBox configuration for GUI applications
      config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
        vb.gui = true
        vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024]
        vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--vram", 64]
        vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--accelerate3d", "on"]
      end

      # Automatically use local apt-cacher-ng if available
      if File.exists? "/etc/apt-cacher-ng"
        # If apt-cacher-ng is installed on this machine then just use it.
        require 'socket'
        guessed_address = Socket.ip_address_list.detect{|intf| !intf.ipv4_loopback?}
        if guessed_address
          config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "echo 'Acquire::http { Proxy \"http://#{guessed_address.ip_address}:3142\"; };' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00proxy"
        end
      end

      # Update to have the latest packages, remove if you don't need that
      config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "apt-get update"
      config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get dist-upgrade --yes"

      # Ready :-)
    end