Using Packer With Fusion

Using packer on OS X to create an ESXi .box template for vagrant deployment

I’ve been recently working on using packer to create vagrant .box files rather than manually creating them as I documented in a previous post. For this post I will be using fusion and the vagrant vmware provider, each of which have an associated cost, but I will cover a free alternative using packer and CentOS in a future post. Several github projects by gosddc have helped me in getting packer up and running on my Macbook: