Generic base boxes, providing a variety of operating systems, and available across a number of different virtualized platforms.
https://app.vagrantup.com/generic
https://app.vagrantup.com/lavabit
https://app.vagrantup.com/lineage
https://hub.docker.com/u/roboxes/
https://hub.docker.com/u/lavabit/
or
https://quay.io/organization/roboxes
https://quay.io/organization/lavabit
Submit a pull request with your favorite distro.
Generate docker variants for the Ubuntu/Debian/Alpine configurations
Add upload/delete/release functions to robox.sh
Add vagrant user password randomization logic to the bundled Vagrantfiles
Add init based test, and SSH command test to the box test and check script
Update VirtualBox from 5.2 to 6.1 (will require changes to the NetBSD boot command/timing)
Create arm images for distros/platforms with support
^-- WE NEED A HARDWARE DONATION TO MAKE ARM64 IMAGES
To build a specific box, run the following:
git clone https://github.com/lavabit/robox && cd robox
./robox.sh box generic-BOX-PROVIDERReplace BOX with one of the following values: [alma8|alpine310|alpine311|alpine312|alpine313|alpine314|alpine315|alpine35|alpine36|alpine37|alpine38|alpine39|arch|centos6|centos7|centos8|debian10|debian11|debian8|debian9|devuan1|devuan2|devuan3|devuan4|dragonflybsd5|dragonflybsd6|fedora25|fedora26|fedora27|fedora28|fedora29|fedora30|fedora31|fedora32|fedora33|fedora34|fedora35|fedora36|freebsd11|freebsd12|freebsd13|gentoo|hardenedbsd11|hardenedbsd12|hardenedbsd13|netbsd8|netbsd9|openbsd6|openbsd7|opensuse15|opensuse42|oracle7|oracle8|rhel6|rhel7|rhel8|rocky8|ubuntu1604|ubuntu1610|ubuntu1704|ubuntu1710|ubuntu1804|ubuntu1810|ubuntu1904|ubuntu1910|ubuntu2004|ubuntu2010|ubuntu2104|ubuntu2110|ubuntu2204] and replace PROVIDER provider with [docker|hyperv|libvirt|parallels|virtualbox|vmware].
The above presumes you already have packer and the target provider installed. The res/providers/providers.sh script can be used to configure a system appropriately, and install the various providers. Currently the script only works on RHEL 7 or CentOS 7, but the steps/commands should work on other Linux distros with appropriate adjustments.
The following variants of existing builds have been requested, and will be added at a future date, when time allows (or someone submits a pull request).
CentOS Stream
Fedora Rawhide
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
The following operating systems have been requested by a member of the robox community, but require a volunteer, so they can be incorporated into the robox workflow.
The following operating systems are on my personal list, but haven't been added because of various resource contraints.
Manjaro
Mint
OpenSolaris
Slackware
MacOS
ReactOS
Windows
Tails
Kali
Enabling the discard/nonrotational options with our VirtualBox configs, appears to improve performance, but only on build robots equipped with SSDs or NVMe drives, and then only if the virtual machine is configured to with VDI virtual disks. This combination allows guests to utilize discard/unmap/trim. However, if a virtual machine is deployed onto traditional magnetic hard disks with discard/nonrotational enabled, performance will drop significantly ( 1/50th of normal in some cases ).
Furthermore, while Packer appears to use VDI disk image files, when the virtual machine is exported and converted into a Vagrant box, the disk gets converted into the VMDK format. The discard/nonrotational options are preserved, and the result is that when the base box is deployed, it results in a virtual machine with the discard/nonrotational options enabled with an unsupported VMDK virtual disk.
As a result, we currently not using the following options in our Packer config files.
"hard_drive_discard": true,
"hard_drive_nonrotational" : true,
A handful of the relevant messages from VirtualBox when a Vagrant box is deployed with this issue.
File system of 'generic-debian8-virtualbox/generic-debian8-virtualbox_default_1649216430418_60259/generic-debian8-virtualbox-disk001.vmdk' is xfs
Format <string> = "VMDK" (cb=5)
Path <string> = "generic-debian8-virtualbox/generic-debian8-virtualbox_default_1649216430418_60259/generic-debian8-virtualbox-disk001.vmdk" (cb=154)
VMSetError: /home/vbox/vbox-5.2.44/src/VBox/Storage/VD.cpp(5662) int VDOpen(PVDISK, const char*, const char*, unsigned int, PVDINTERFACE); rc=VERR_VD_DISCARD_NOT_SUPPORTED
MSetError: VD: Backend 'VMDK' does not support discard
AIOMgr: Endpoint for file 'generic-debian8-virtualbox/generic-debian8-virtualbox_default_1649216430418_60259/generic-debian8-virtualbox-disk001.vmdk' (flags 000c0723) created successfully
AIOMgr: generic-debian8-virtualbox/generic-debian8-virtualbox_default_1649216430418_60259/generic-debian8-virtualbox-disk001.vmdk
The performance degradation leads to write timeouts, and the logs become filled with messages like the following.
VD#0: Write request was active for 36 seconds
VD#0: Aborted write (524288 bytes left) returned rc=VERR_PDM_MEDIAEX_IOREQ_CANCELED
AHCI#0P0: Canceled write at offset 82372182016 (524288 bytes left) returned rc=VERR_PDM_MEDIAEX_IOREQ_CANCELED
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Roboxes is maintained by Ladar Levison, with infrastructure provided by Lavabit LLC.