vagrant-sil

vagrant-sil contains Vagrant configuration for accessing pre-configured virtual machines for testing graphical software on different Linux distributions. Most uses of Vagrant are normally for server-based applications and are run headless and have minimal number of packages installed. However, for testing Linux desktop software, you want to have a typical desktop user setup. So these images are quite a bit larger that standard pre-configured Vagrant images.

Installation

Install the following required software components:

• vagrant -- need 1.6.3+

• virtualbox -- need 4.3.18+

  • Windows: make sure path to VBoxManage is accessible from the command-line

• At a command-line install vagrant-vbguest plugin

  vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

• At a command-line install vagrant-cachier plugin (optional)

  vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier

Usage

• Clone this repo
• At a command-line in the directory for this repo, use the vagrant command to start, halt, shutdown, or destroy
• Examples:
  • list: vagrant status
  • start: vagrant up <name>
  • halt: vagrant halt <name>
  • shutdown: vagrant shutdown <name>
  • delete: vagrant destroy -f <name>

Configuration

Each of the machines have been setup using the documentation for a base box which means:

• username=vagrant, password=vagrant
• machine=vagrant-<name>
• update base packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

• install GuestAdditions and reboot
• run the following scripts to configure (followed by list of changes)

wget -P Documents/ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisvire/vagrant-sil/master/scripts/{compact,packages,settings,vagrant}.sh
sudo bash Documents/vagrant.sh
sudo bash Documents/packages.sh

bash Documents/settings.sh
sudo bash Documents/compact.sh

• use vagrant insecure keypair

• password-less sudo

• apt is pre-configured to include main and experimental SIL package repositories

• default package installation and uninstallation for testing environment

• Minor changes have been made to simplify testing:

  • Turn screen off when inactive: Never
  • Lock: Off
  • Change default Profile Colors for terminal (makes it easier to distinguish from host terminal windows)
  • Adding default environment variables to disable usage tracking while testing
  • Show menus for windows in the Window's title bar
  • .bashrc change to include git bash prompt
  • Disable Online Searches from Dash

• Unique background image per machine (to easily distinguish the version)