# Creation of standard VM images with Packer
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## Reference
These Packer templates are derived from the templates for building Vagrant boxes for various OS produced by the [Bento Project](https://github.com/chef/bento), produced under Apache 2 license.
+## Pre-requirements
+
+- Hypervisor installed to generate the required type of boxes (e.g. VirtualBox, VMware, Parallels, etc.)
+- Packer >=1.6.5
+- Optional:
+ - Vagrant >=2.2
+ - An Openstack cloud available.
+
## How to build images from Packer templates
Example 1: How to build an OSM box just for the VirtualBox provider:
```bash
cd packer_templates/osm
-packer build -only=virtualbox-iso osm-7.0.1-amd64.json
+packer build -only=virtualbox-iso osm-8.0.4-amd64.json
```
Example 2: How to build an OSM VM with the OpenStack provider:
```bash
source openrc.sh # This is only needed the first time
-jq 'del(."post-processors")' osm-7.0.1-amd64.json > tmp.json
+jq 'del(."post-processors")' osm-8.0.4-amd64.json > tmp.json
packer build -only=openstack tmp.json
rm tmp.json
```
1. Import the local box into Packer:
```bash
cd ../../builds
- vagrant box add --name osm/osm-rel7 osm-7.0.1.virtualbox.box
+ vagrant box add --name osm/osm-rel8 osm-8.0.4.virtualbox.box
```
2. Use the example at `vagrant_tests` to test it:
```bash
3. In case the local image is no longer needed, it can be removed by:
```bash
vagrant destroy
- vagrant box remove osm/osm-rel7
+ vagrant box remove osm/osm-rel8
```
## How to upload boxes to Vagrant Cloud