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Using packer.io to build your own BIG-IP Vagrant boxes

I've been using Hashicorp's toolchain for some time now, and in the past I've posted articles about building Vagrant boxes using the BIG-IP OVA image. Since then, I've done a bit more work on the top...
Updated Jun 06, 2023
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Thomas_A__McGon
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Sep 02, 2016

Hi New SE here. Glad to see Vagrant and VirtualBox on DevCentral. Long time user of both. I am afraid I am running into some trouble.

 

The cleanup.sh script were you do the dd's error'd out with the following error message: virtualbox-iso: dd: error writing ‘/EMPTY’: No space left on device I found a packer article that said to add | true to the end of the dd lines, but that didn't help: dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M | true

 

I have since commented out the dd lines, but I am still unable to build a vagrant box. I can run through the build, but am getting the following error at the last stage: ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors: --> BIGIP-12.1.1.0.0.184: Timeout while waiting for machine to shut down.

 

I would love to use Vagrant and VirtualBox, any recommendations on how I might proceed.