We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.4.1708 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.4). All included packages have been updated to 9 January 2017 and include important fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting modern processors.
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).
- Some people reported "could not resolve host" errors when running the centos/7 image for VirtualBox on Windows hosts. Try adding the following line to your Vagrantfile:
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "off"]
Recommended Setup on the Host
Our automatic testing is running on a CentOS Linux 7 host, using Vagrant 1.9.4 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.
Downloads
The official images can be downloaded from Vagrant Cloud. We provide mailing list, or via IRC, in #centos on Freenode.
Ackowledgements
We would like to warmly thank Fabian Arrotin and Thomas Oulevey for their work on the build infrastructure, as well as Patrick Lang from Microsoft for testing and feedback on the Hyper-V images.
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;
- Kirill Kalachev, for reporting and debugging the host name errors with VirtualBox on Windows hosts.
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