Notes on preparation minimal Vagrant base box for Arch / Manjaro Linux.

arch-vagrant-base-box-preparation.md

Creating minimal Vagrant base box for Arch / Manjaro Linux

• Create

  • Create an Arch Linux ase Vagrant base box

• Import Insecure Keypair for SSH

mkdir /home/vagrant/.ssh
wget --no-check-certificate \
    'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub' \
    -O /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 0700 /home/vagrant/.ssh
chmod 0600 /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh

• Remove packages
  • Find installed packages by size

expac -H M "%011m\t%-20n\t%10d" $(comm -23 <(pacman -Qqen | sort) <(pacman -Qqg base base-devel | sort)) | sort -n

• Clean up

sudo su -
pacman -Scc --noconfirm
paccache -ruk0
rm -rf /var/log/journal/* /var/log/old/* /var/log/faillog /var/log/lastlog /var/log/pacman.log
rm -f /home/vagrant/.bash_history
rm -f /root/.bash_history
cd /root
dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofillfile bs=1M
rm -f zerofillfile

• Package First, temporarily, add config.ssh.insert_key = false to the Vagrantfile (see hashicorp/vagrant#5186 (comment))

vagrant package --base {VIRTUALBOX VM NAME} --output virtualbox.box

Finally, remove config.ssh.insert_key = false from the Vagrantfile.

• Test

vagrant box add {VAGRANT BOX NAME} virtualbox.box