My Machine Project

This project aims to automatically create a VM on VirtualBox with the ideal initial setup for my needs.

All the configuration files are taken from my GitHub repo general-cfgs: https://github.com/brunodea/general-cfgs.

Dependencies

• VirtualBox;
• Python;
• Arch Linux image (https://www.archlinux.org/download/).

Running

Run the following script:

./run.sh

It will prompt you to set the environment variables (see below). It also downloads the latest version of Arch ISO to my-machine/out/. After that, it will run my-machine.sh.

Note that all files generated by the script will be located in my-machine/out/. This includes VirtualBox-specific files, such as the virtual hard disk, and id_rsa files.

Some environment variables must be set:

• VBOX: path to VirtualBox folder with its executables, such as VBoxManage;
• PYTHON: path to the Python folder with its executable;
• ROOT_PWD: password for the root user of the VM;
• USER: name of the default user of the VM;
• USER_PWD: password for the default user of the VM.

<size> refers to the amount of memory that will be used for the VM:

• small: 32GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 32MB VRAM;
• medium: 32GB HDD, 2GB RAM, 64MB VRAM;
• large: 48GB HDD, 4GB RAM, 128MB VRAM;
• extra: 48GB HDD, 6GB RAM, 128MB VRAM.

Notes:

• my-machine isn't currently completely automated, but it only requires manual intervention once around 5min after the script was run:
  • It will be asked to type Arch's ISO root password: type "root";
• choose passwords at least 8 chars long for ROOT_PWD and USER_PWD;
• the VM's .vdi file will be created in the directory where my-machine.sh was run from.

Structure

• my-machine.sh: Entry-point for the VM creation. It is run in the host machine and manages the VM creation and setup as well as calling the configuration steps;

TODO