https://www.puppeteers.net/tags/virtualbox/ Recent content in Virtualbox on Puppeteers Oy Hugo en-US Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/creating-pxe-bootable-virtualbox-vms/ Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/creating-pxe-bootable-virtualbox-vms/ <p>We use <a href="https://www.vagrantup.com/">Vagrant</a> and <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/">Virtualbox</a> heavily when developing Puppet code. We also do provisioning of baremetal servers with <a href="https://theforeman.org/">Foreman</a>. While Vagrant is a really powerful tool, it is not designed for creating VMs that boot from the network (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment">PXE boot</a>). Fortunately Virtualbox itself provides a rich command-line with which you can create and configure virtual machines and configure them to boot from the network. It is assumed below that there is a PXE boot server (e.g. Foreman) created into a hostonly network with Vagrant. Here&rsquo;s an example script that create a VM with vboxmanage and adds it the same hostonly network interface (vboxnet15) as the PXE boot server:</p>