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https://github.com/renderedtext/mkvm

Scripts for setting up a new virtual machine for development
https://github.com/renderedtext/mkvm

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Scripts for setting up a new virtual machine for development

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/renderedtext/mkvm
Owner: renderedtext
License: mit
Created: 2012-04-30T11:07:35.000Z (over 12 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2012-05-05T15:28:06.000Z (over 12 years ago)
Last Synced: 2023-03-11T00:53:44.486Z (almost 2 years ago)
Language: Ruby
Size: 117 KB
Stars: 2
Watchers: 12
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 2
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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# mkvm - scripts for setting up a VirtualBox VM for development

- On your host, make sure you have Ruby 1.9 and bundler gem
- Clone this repo

## Creating the VM

- Download and install [VirtualBox](www.virtualbox.org)
- Download [Ubuntu Server (11.10) 64-bit](http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/ubuntu-11.10-server-amd64.iso)
- In VirtualBox, create a new Linux / Ubuntu 64-bit virtual machine and name it 'mybox'
- Increase RAM (2+GB)
- Continue with "Start-up Disk", VDI, Dynamically allocated
- Increase disk size (20GB), wizard is done
- Open VM's Settings
- Attach the disk image (.iso) file to the machine's IDE controller (under Storage)
- Increase CPU cores (2+, under System/Processor)
- Start VM, go through the installation
- use the same username as on host
- guided - use entire disk
- do NOT encrypt home directory
- set hostname to 'mybox'
- no automatic updates
- choose to install OpenSSH server
- let it reboot
- Power off the VM
- Set up port forwarding (from host machine, assuming it's c 2222):

```Bash
VBoxManage modifyvm "mybox" --natpf1 "rails,tcp,,3000,,3000"
VBoxManage modifyvm "mybox" --natpf1 "guestssh,tcp,,2222,,22"
```

- Add these lines to ~/.ssh/config on your host:

```Bash
Host mybox
Hostname localhost
Port 2222
User USER_NAME
ForwardX11 yes
```

## Bootstrapping

- On host you might need to `rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts`
- Start the VM
- Copy the ssh configuration from the host:

```Bash
rsync -av ~/.ssh mybox:
```

- ssh into the VM: ssh username@mybox
- Copy the content of your local `~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub` into `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` on VM
- Set up a bash alias in `~/.bash_profile`: `alias box=ssh -Y mybox`
- Reconnect to VM with the new 'box' command
- You can now turnoff the VM and save a snapshot of this blank state

## Configuration

Chef cookbook `postgresql-bootstrap` creates a new user user and database cluster.

Place your username in `node[:postgresql_bootstrap][:username]` in
`chef/config/main.json`. This should be the username you're using your VM
with.

## Installing the stack

bundle install --path vendor/bundle
bundle exec cap install_stack SERVER=mybox USER=yourusername PORT=2222

## License