Mind you that is EOL since April 2017. A few years ago when I was using Vagrant one knew to use Trusty (14.04 LTS) or Xenial (16.04 LTS) just to have something reasonably current. Now it’s a matter of security patches, 6 CVEs since April.
Yes, that is why. Some of the available boxes lack installed guest additions, which is necessary for synced folders. Guest additions isn’t too hard to install, but I figured I would go with a box that I knew already had guest additions installed. It was just something I wanted to avoid during the post.
At work we use CentOS 7, and it lacked guest additions so I had to take the time to build a new version of the CentOS 7 box with guest additions installed.
Because hashicorp/precise64 used to be the only hashicorp box supporting the most important providers, and the corresponding pull request has been closed without actually updating the docs later.
While this would likely help some people, it really feels more like “How to set up a basic vagrant development environment” than at all Erlang related to me, honestly.
It’s a curiosity to me that people using Vagrant in 2017 continue to use the “precise64” image. It’s Ubuntu 12.04 - a release from 5 1/2 years ago.
Mind you that is EOL since April 2017. A few years ago when I was using Vagrant one knew to use Trusty (14.04 LTS) or Xenial (16.04 LTS) just to have something reasonably current. Now it’s a matter of security patches, 6 CVEs since April.
The official docs still refer to it, that is probably why.
Yes, that is why. Some of the available boxes lack installed guest additions, which is necessary for synced folders. Guest additions isn’t too hard to install, but I figured I would go with a box that I knew already had guest additions installed. It was just something I wanted to avoid during the post.
At work we use CentOS 7, and it lacked guest additions so I had to take the time to build a new version of the CentOS 7 box with guest additions installed.
I use our own debian boxes for most work, but there should be bento boxes for most major distros/versions.
There should be very little need for “end users” to build their own boxes from scratch.
Because hashicorp/precise64 used to be the only hashicorp box supporting the most important providers, and the corresponding pull request has been closed without actually updating the docs later.
https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/pull/8817
While this would likely help some people, it really feels more like “How to set up a basic vagrant development environment” than at all Erlang related to me, honestly.