Vagrant + packer

[daxgames]

Vagrant and Packer Templates for Cmder development VMs.

Usage:

1. Clone Cmder repo to local, checkout this branch, if not yet merged.

2. Install Oracle VM Virtualbox

3. Install Vagrant

4. Install Packer if you want to do Packer template development.4.

   • Build Packer Boxes.

     • Windows

       cd %cmder_root%\scripts\packer
       .\build_windows_[10|11].bat virtualbox
       

     • Linux

       cd [CMDER Repo Folder]/scripts/packer
       ./build_windows_[10|11].sh virtualbox
       

5. Add Vagrant boxes

   • Type vagrant box add dgames\cmderdev-10
   • Type vagrant box add dgames\cmderdev-11

6. Bring up a box.

   • Type vagrant up cmderdev-10
   • Type vagrant up cmderdev-11

7. Enjoy!

What this is.

Automation to build Packer VM Images for use with Vagrant to stand up ready to use Windows VMs for Cmder Development and Testing.

Tested Virtualbox Only

• Windows 10
• Windows 11

Un-Tested Hypervisors

• VMWare Workstation
• Hyper-V
• Parallels

All VMs Stood up with Vagrant Include

• Cmder - Cloned from https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder into c:\Users\Vagrant\cmderdev
  • Added upstream remote set to https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder
• Chocolatey
  • Cmder
  • Git
  • PoshGit
  • 7zip
  • Notepad++
  • Visual Studio Community 2022
    • C++ Dev Tools for Developing Cmder Launcher.
  • Cmder Integrated Terminals
    • Tabby
    • VSCode
    • Windows Terminal
  • Other Terminals
    • Hyper
    • Fluent Terminal

Post vagrant up Config

1. Set your Cmder origin remote:

   cd %userprofile%\cmderdev
   git remote set-url origin [your fork]
   git config --global user.name "your name"
   git config --global user.email you@email.com
   

Packer Support Origins

Most of the Packer support for Cmder is shamelessly being borrowed from the following repositories and added to to support Cmder..

• StefanScherer/packer-windows
• Baune8D/packer-windows-desktop

Thank you both for the good work!

Screenshots

Windows 10 - After vagrant up

Windows 11 - With Post vagrant up user configuration.