Arch Linux Development Box

A minimalistic Arch Linux-based development Vagrant box and template

This repository contains the build system for a base (Arch Linux)[https://archlinux.org/]-based development virtual machine image.

This VM can either be used directly or can be customized to suit your needs. The base VM built by this project is available in the Vagrant Cloud as michael-slx/arch-develop.

Using the bare VM

To run the VM, you'll need Vagrant and VirtualBox.

Run the following command To create a new Vagrantfile:

$ vagrant init michael-slx/arch-develop

If you're new to Vagrant, check out the Vagrant documentation.

Customizing

If you wish to build a custom base box based on this one, read the documentation on customization.

Building

For building your own image locally, enter the following command:

$ ./build.sh

Packer is required to build an image in addition to Vagrant and VirtualBox.

Configuration

This base box is designed to be a good starting point for an Arch Linux-based development environment.

Configuration

• 64 GB primary disk
  • Dynamically allocated
  • 16 GB SWAP
  • 47,5 GB ROOT (ext4)
• UTC timezone, en_US.UTF-8 locale, us keymap
• NTP-synced time
• Network management using systemd
• Default hostname: vagrant
• Optimized boot process
  • Minimal Initrd
  • No bootloader (EFI booting)
• Regular mirrorlist updates using Reflector

Installed packages

• base (group), base-devel (group)
• linux
• e2fsprogs, dosfstools
• efibootmgr
• openssh
• systemd-resolvconf
• reflector
• virtualbox-guest-utils-nox
• neovim, nano
• wget, curl
• sudo
• git, subversion, mercurial
• man-db, man-pages, texinfo
• bash-completion, zsh, oh-my-zsh
• pikaur, pacaur, yay

Contributions

Participants and contributors are welcome! You are invited to submit issues as well as pull requests should an update break anything or if you think something important is missing.

Thank you

Legal

This project's configuration files and installation scripts are licensed under the MIT License.

This project is not an official project of the Arch Linux distribution. The Arch Linux name and logo are recognized trademarks. Some rights reserved.