#Packer templates for Oracle Linux

With this you make your own OEL 6.6, 6.7 or 7.2 image/machine which you can use with vagrant ( it can work with Virtualbox and Vmware) but also you can generate the same image/machine for Oracle public cloud (OPC)

##Contributions Big thanks to Lucas de Souza Reis Gomes for all the help on OEL7 on OPC

##OPC For OPC you should use Qemu emulator and this will make

• a clean image ( no guest or vmtools)
• add the opc user
• sudo rights for opc
• key inject script
• tar.gz as export
• delete password & disable root

Follow the Oracle Cloud docs for uploading the image and to associate it. After that follow the normal flow

For now qemu is a bit slow ( can take a few hours ) because I cannot use the kvm accelerator on my mac. It only works fast on linux host or vm)

##Software Download Packer (tested with Packer version 1.0.0)

##How to build a box, image

• Download OEL6.6 from edelivery
• Update the iso_location path variable in the oracle-linux-6.6-x86_64.json
• extract packer in your home folder.
• export PATH=~/packer_0.8.6_darwin_amd64:$PATH

For OEL6.6 Choose one

• packer build -only=virtualbox-iso oracle-linux-6.6-x86_64.json
  • This also requires virtualbox
• packer build -only=vmware-iso oracle-linux-6.6-x86_64.json
  • This also requires vmware fusion or workstation
• packer build -only=qemu oracle-linux-6.6-x86_64.json
  • Requires Qemu for linux or for mac

For OEL6.7 with UEK4 Choose one

• packer build -only=virtualbox-iso oracle-linux-6.7-x86_64.json
• packer build -only=vmware-iso oracle-linux-6.7-x86_64.json

For OEL6.7 with UEK3 for the OPC (UEK4 does not work, probably need to install the right Xen drivers)

• packer build -only=qemu oracle-linux-6.7-x86_64.json

For OEL6.9 with UEK4 Choose one

• packer build -only=virtualbox-iso oracle-linux-6.9-x86_64.json
• packer build -only=vmware-iso oracle-linux-6.9-x86_64.json

For OEL6.9 with UEK3 for the OPC (UEK4 does not work, probably need to install the right Xen drivers)

• packer build -only=qemu oracle-linux-6.9-x86_64.json

For OEL7.2 with UEK4 Choose one

• packer build -only=virtualbox-iso oracle-linux-7.2-x86_64.json
• packer build -only=vmware-iso oracle-linux-7.2-x86_64.json

For OEL7.2 with UEK4 for OPC

• packer build -only=qemu oracle-linux-7.2-x86_64.json

##Qemu installation for mac osx

• brew install qemu --with-sdl

##Qemu packer on a linux VM

###Init

• vagrant init phusion/ubuntu-14.04-amd64
• enable nested x86 support ( also in the bios of your computer )
  • in vmware vb.vmx["vhv.enable"] = "TRUE"
  • Virtualbox does not pass on vmx but you can try to set this in VBOX 5 vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--hwvirtex", "on"] and vb.customize ['modifyvm', :id, '--paravirtprovider', 'kvm']
• vagrant up

###Install

• Download packer and add it to the root/vagrant folder
• Download OEL ISO and add it to the root/vagrant folder

For ubuntu

vagrant ssh
sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu virt-manager virt-viewer libvirt-bin
egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
kvm-ok

For OEL/CentOS 7

vagrant ssh
sudo -i
yum -y install qemu-kvm libvirt virt-install bridge-utils vnc
egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
lsmod | grep kvm

###Build Update OEL 6 qemu config

• update iso_location to /vagrant
• headless true instead of false
• accelerator kvm instead of none
• update ["-machine", "type=pc"] -> ["-machine", "type=pc,accel=kvm"]
• For RHEL7 add "qemu_binary" : "/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm" to the Qemu packer definition

wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.0.0/packer_1.0.0_linux_amd64.zip
unzip packer_1.0.0_linux_amd64.zip
rm packer_1.0.0_linux_amd64.zip
sudo /vagrant/packer build -only=qemu oracle-linux-6.9-x86_64.json
vncviewer -Shared 127.0.0.1:5999

• move build output file to /vagrant and you can use it