[Semibug] Questions about Vagrant Cloud boxes for BSDs

[Jeffrey David Marraccini]

Apologies, I have not with Vagrant, but we have BSD's working great in 
Azure (OpenBSD + FreeBSD) and especially, in VMware.  A lot of our devs 
use Vagrant but they seem focused on Linux still. There's a chink in the 
armor now that they see the power of OpenBSD for edge services (seeing 
what my team is up to, etc.), but no take-up yet.  I will send a poke 
and if there is progress, would be glad to put you in touch with them.


On 7/11/2017 21:19, James E Keenan wrote:
> This post is directed toward anyone on list who has had experience 
> using the Vagrant boxes available on the "Vagrant Cloud" 
> (https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search) for working with the BSDs.
>
> Specifically:
>
> 1. FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT
>
> At https://app.vagrantup.com/freebsd/boxes/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT, I 
> find what appears to be links to weekly snapshot builds of 
> 12.0-CURRENT, e.g.:
>
> https://app.vagrantup.com/freebsd/boxes/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT/versions/2017.07.11 
>
> https://app.vagrantup.com/freebsd/boxes/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT/versions/2017.07.04 
>
> ...
>
> Each of these has a "vmware_desktop" version and a "virtualbox" 
> version.  I have experience in both kinds of VM.
>
> What I would like to do with these boxes is:
>
> * Install one each week.
> * Configure as necessary to be able to test Perl 5 blead.  This would 
> require using 'pkg' to install perl, git, vim, certain perl libraries, 
> etc., in an automated way.
> * Generate smoke test reports of perl 5 blead on FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT.
> * Discard boxes after, say, 4 weeks.
>
> Has anyone experience with something like this?  What have you learned 
> from that experience?
>
> 2. OpenBSD
>
> I've never succeeded in getting a working (meaning:  connected to the 
> Internet) OpenBSD VM, but I see that boxes are available here:
>
> https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=created&provider=&q=OpenBSD 
>
>
> I could use such a box to familiarize myself with OpenBSD as well as 
> to smoke test Perl.
>
> Has anyone used such boxes to keep up with OpenBSD development?
>
> 3. NetBSD
>
> I've never touched NetBSD at all, but boxes are available here:
>
> https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=created&provider=&q=NetBSD 
>
>
> Same concern and questions as for OpenBSD.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
>
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