Tenderloin

Tenderloin is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments.

It is based on Vagrant, specifically the 0.1.4 release. This was the simplest, and provided a good starting point

It is designed to use VMWare Fusion as the underlying provider. You will need Fusion 5.

Features:

• Shared folders
• Provisioning via command or script
• Imports Vagrant boxes
• Sync data via rsync (Allows target VMs to not have tools)

Quick Start

gem install tenderloin

To build your first virtual environment:

loin init
loin box add base http://s3.lstoll.net/<todo>.box
loin up

The file describing your VM is called 'Tenderfile', but you can optionally change this with the -f flag, to allow multiple VM descriptions in the same place.

Building base boxes

Currently base boxes are built manually. The process:

• Create image in Fusion
• Set user and password to 'tenderloin'
• Set sudo to not prompt for password
• Install VMWare additions

• Ensure you have a single .vmdk disk. If not, convert with:

  /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -r Virtual\ Disk.vmdk -t 0 precise64.vmdk

and then edit the vmx to point to this.

• Compress and shrink the disk

  /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -d precise64.vmdk /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager -k precise64.vmdk

• Create a Tenderfile. Example:

  Tenderloin::Config.run do |config| config.vm.box_vmx = "precise64.vmx" end

• Tar them up as a .box

  tar -cvf precise64.box precise64.vmx Tenderfile precise64.vmdk