[jira] [Resolved] (BIGTOP-871) Add a Boxgrinder wrapper to Bigtop

["Sean Mackrory (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-871?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sean Mackrory resolved BIGTOP-871.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

And done. I did indeed end up using Packer for all the stuff I needed to do. If there is a need for stand-alone VM images in the future I'd suggest we use Packer instead of trying to fill in the widening gaps in Boxgrinder, but let's create a new JIRA when that time comes...

> Add a Boxgrinder wrapper to Bigtop
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>                 Key: BIGTOP-871
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-871
>             Project: Bigtop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sean Mackrory
>            Assignee: Sean Mackrory
>         Attachments: boxgrinder-bigtop.tar.gz
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> There are certain improvements that I think can be made to the Bigtop VMs that are probably best accomplished by making a simple wrapper around Boxgrinder. Improvements include:
> - For including hypervisor-specific extensions, like VMWare Tools or Virtualbox Guest additions
> - More polishing of the resulting artifacts, like creating OVA appliances, tweak the VMX appliances
> - A good way to separate the boxgrinder configuration for each component
> I've done some tinkering in this direction and will post code for my ideas soon.



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