This page <https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/format.html> on vagrant file format tells us:
Today, there are three different components: > > - > > Box File - This is a compressed (tar, tar.gz, zip) file that is > specific to a single provider and can contain anything. Vagrant core does > not ever use the contents of this file. Instead, they are passed to the > provider. Therefore, a VirtualBox box file has different contents from a > VMware box file and so on. > - > > Box Catalog Metadata - This is a JSON document (typically exchanged > during interactions with HashiCorp's Vagrant Cloud > <https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/vagrant-cloud>) that specifies the > name of the box, a description, available versions, available providers, > and URLs to the actual box files (next component) for each provider and > version. If this catalog metadata does not exist, a box file can still be > added directly, but it will not support versioning and updating. > - > > Box Information - This is a JSON document that can provide additional > information about the box that displays when a user runs vagrant box > list -i. More information is provided here > <https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/info.html>. > > Note, how vargrantfile is not mentioned anywhere in this description or elsewhere on the page. Yet, if we read this page <https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/vagrant.html> from packer documentation we can read: vagrantfile_template > <https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/vagrant.html#vagrantfile_template> > (string) > - Path to a template to use for the Vagrantfile that is packaged with the > box. This implies that a vagrantfile can indeed be packaged with the box. How does this work? Why one includes vagrantfile with a box and how this vagrantfile is used and how it interact with the normal vagrantfile which we are using with `vagrant up`? -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/0248837a-7d7d-484d-8786-e8664b3e8eff%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
