These VMDK files are configured for dynamically allocated storage, with a virtual size of 40 GB. The Ubuntu Cloud Images (boxes), are Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) format files.
Ubuntu’s images are very popular with Vagrant users to build their VMs.Īssuming you have VirtualBox and Vagrant installed on your Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux system, with a few simple commands, ‘vagrant add box…’, ‘vagrant init…’, and ‘vagrant up’, you can provision a VM from one of these boxes. They are portable files which can be used by others on any platform that runs Vagrant to bring up a working environment‘. Imagine you’ve provisioned dozens of nodes on your network using Ubuntu’s Cloud Images, expecting them to grow dynamically…Īccording to Canonical, ‘ Ubuntu Cloud Images are pre-installed disk images that have been customized by Ubuntu engineering to run on cloud-platforms such as Amazon EC2, Openstack, Windows and LXC’. Ubuntu also disk images, or ‘boxes’, built specifically for Vagrant and VirtualBox. Boxes, according to Vagrant, ‘ are the skeleton from which Vagrant machines are constructed.
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