README.md

spike-vagrant-osx

An experiment with getting an OSX guest running with Vagrant so this might eventually be used to test Sprout.

Dependencies

1. Vmware Fusion
2. Packer
3. Vagrant 1.3+
4. Vagrant's Vmware Fusion Provider
5. Tim Sutton's osx-vm-templates for building an OSX box with Packer
6. ServerSpec

Creating an OSX box for Vagrant with Packer

1. Clone Tim Sutton's osx-vm-templates

   git clone https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates
   

2. Extract a Packer compatible image from the OS X Mountain Lion installer

   Caveat: The installer can't to be downloadable on newer Macbook Airs running OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067)

   cd osx-vm-templates
   sudo prepare_iso/prepare_iso.sh "/Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion.app" out
   

   Take note of the checksum of the generated image and its full path from the output of this command, you'll need this in a moment.

3. Edit the Packer template packer/template.json

   1. Change iso_checksum to the checksum of the image generated earlier
   2. Change iso_url to the absolute path of the image generated earlier, keep the file:/// prefix.
   3. Remove the chef-omnibus.sh and puppet.sh scripts from the list of provisioners
   4. Don't forget to save the file!

4. Create a new box with Packer

   cd packer
   packer template.json
   

5. Add the box generated earlier to Vagrant

   vagrant box add osx packer_vmware_vmware.box
   

Starting the OSX guest with Vagrant

1. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/hiremaga/spike-vagrant-osx
   

2. Start vagrant using this repo's Vagrantfile

   cd spike-vagrant-osx
   vagrant up --provider vmware_fusion
   

Run specs

bundle install
bundle exec rspec

If everything is setup correctly the output should be:

→ bundle exec rspec

Command "uname"
  should return stdout "Darwin"

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