Running hLinux as the base OS

hLinux can be installed and run as the base OS for all the vm(s) defined in mini-mon. The vagrantfile in this sub-dir is setup for this purpose. Before running this you must create a hLinux box as describe below.

As of the last testing there are a couple of minor problems:

The HP proxy can cause trouble if not using an externally accessible hLinux apt repo.
The vboxsf filesystem driver is not working correctly in hLinux, this prevents home directory syncing.
Slow network performance of the hLinux vbox image makes some tasks annoying.

Creating a new hLinux box

The hLinux box used in mini-mon is created via packer, config is in the templates sub-directory.

Install packer
- brew tap homebrew/binary
- brew install packer
Run packer
- cd templates
- packer build hlinux.json
From the mini-mon directory run vagrant box add hlinux templates/packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box
- If you have an existing hLinux box you man need to first remove it vagrant box remove hlinux
- Also upload to a server for others to download.