Last time, we looked at how to spin up a Docker host and run BSDPy on it. That’s great for production, but might be a bit of a faff to do every time you want to test your NBI at home.
Inspired by Dr Graham R Pugh, here’s my Vagrant setup for this.
You will need:
- Vagrant
- Either VirtualBox or VMware Fusion (if you use Fusion with Vagrant, you will need to purchase the VMware plugin - this will allow you to create OS X Vagrantboxes as well as enjoy the much greater performance of VMware, but that’s another post)
- Xcode, or at the very least the command line tools from Xcode so you have git available.
- Something to NetBoot - either a physical Mac or a VM in VMware Fusion. A VM configured as per Rich Trouton’s post will do nicely.
Get all of that installed and you’re ready to go. Next we need to get the Vagrantfile:
$ git clone https://github.com/grahamgilbert/docker-vagrant.git
You will obviously need an NBI - I’ve covered how to use AutoNBI before, or you could use an existing one. Just make sure you’ve edited NBImageInfo.plist to make enabled be true and that the Mac (or VM) you’re NetBooting isn’t in DisabledSystemIdentifiers (I leave this as an empty <array />). Put your NBI in the nbi directory.
Now there’s one thing left to do:
$ cd docker-vagrant
$ vagrant up
Give it 20 seconds to finish booting and you will see your NBI in the startup pane of your Mac.