[BIGTOP-871] Add a Boxgrinder wrapper to Bigtop

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Sean Mackrory
• Reporter: Sean Mackrory
• Created: 15/Mar/13 21:40
• Updated: 31/Dec/14 00:13
• Resolved: 31/Dec/14 00:13

Description

There are certain improvements that I think can be made to the Bigtop VMs that are probably best accomplished by making a simple wrapper around Boxgrinder. Improvements include:

• For including hypervisor-specific extensions, like VMWare Tools or Virtualbox Guest additions
• More polishing of the resulting artifacts, like creating OVA appliances, tweak the VMX appliances
• A good way to separate the boxgrinder configuration for each component

I've done some tinkering in this direction and will post code for my ideas soon.