We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.3.1611 for x86_64, featuring updated packages to 30 April 2017 and the following changes:
- kdump has been removed from the images, since it needs to reserve 160MB + 2bits/4kB RAM for the crash kernel, and automatic allocation only works on systems with at least 2GB RAM
Known Issues
- The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the instead of VirtualBox shared folders if possible. You can also use the
- Vagrant 1.8.7 is unable to download or update boxes due to
- Vagrant 1.9.3 doesn't work with SMB sync due to (updated for this release).
Recommended Setup on the Host
Our automatic testing is running on a CentOS Linux 7 host, using Vagrant 1.9.3 with vagrant-libvirt and VirtualBox 5.1.20 (without the Guest Additions) as providers. We strongly recommend using the libvirt provider when stability is required.
We also performed additional manual testing with Vagrant 1.9.4 on OS X 10.11.6, with VirtualBox 5.1.20.
Downloads
The official images can be downloaded from Hashicorp’s Atlas. We provide mailing list, or via IRC, in #centos on Freenode.
Ackowledgements
We would like to thank Fabian Arrotin and Thomas Oulevey for their work on the build infrastructure.
We would also like to thank the following people (listed alphabetically):
- Graham Mainwaring, for helping with tests and validations
- Michael Vermaes, for testing our official images, as well as for writing the detailed guide to using them with VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Workstation Pro.
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