Chapter 12. Creating Vagrant boxes with RHEL image builder

Procedure

1. Build the Vagrant box image:

   • For libvirt:

     $ sudo image-builder build --distro rhel-10.0 vagrant-libvirt

   • For VirtualBox:

     $ sudo image-builder build - -distro <distro-name> vagrant-virtualbox

     This creates a .box file.

2. Import the new .box file to your local Vagrant environment. You must explicitly set the provider to virtualbox because it is not the standard provider.

   $ vagrant box add --provider=virtualbox <path/to/box> --name=<box-name>

   Replace path/to/image-name.box with the actual path to your file and <box_name> with a name such as rhel10-vagrant.

3. Create a new directory for your project, and initialize Vagrant:

   $ mkdir <my_vagrant_project>
   $ cd <my_vagrant_project>
   $ vagrant init <box-name>

   This creates the Vagrantfile configuration file and sets its default box to <box-name>.

4. Launch the virtual machine by using Vagrant:

   $ vagrant up