Vagrant Multi-Provider Snap
Description
This Vagrant plugin provides a consistent interface to taking snapshots of running Vagrant boxes. It currently supports the following providers:
- VirtualBox
- VMWare Fusion (via the commercial VMWare plugin)
- VMWare Workstation (via the commercial VMWare plugin)
Installation
The easiest way to install this plugin is via the published gem.
vagrant plugin install vagrant-multiprovider-snap
Usage
Typical usage:
Take a new snapshot
vagrant snap take [vm]Roll back to the last snapshot
vagrant snap rollback [vm]List snapshots
vagrant snap list [vm]
Limitations
It's currently not possible to do any of the following:
- Give a custom snapshot name
- Roll back to a specific named snapshot
- Disable snapshotting
My own requirements don't include these features, but I could be tempted to add them if anyone would find them useful.
Hacking
Working on this module is a little tricky because of the obfuscation used by the commercial VMWare module. The following approach should get you up and running - although it's a bundler environment, you'll also need a packaged Vagrant install in order to get access to the rgloader libraries.
git clone [email protected]:scalefactory/vagrant-multiprovider-snap.git
cd vagrant-multiprovider-snap
cp ~/.vagrant.d/license-vagrant-vmware-fusion.lic .
bundle install
bundle install --deployment
You should now find that bundle exec vagrant status returns correctly,
and you can hack on the code from there.
Once you've made changes that you're happy with, I'd recommend using
rake build to create a gem, then installing that into your packaged
Vagrant install since some things which work in the bundler environment might
not work as expected in the packaged copy due to differences in how the plugins
are handled.
License
vagrant-multiprovider-snap is licensed under the MIT license.
Thanks
Many thanks to the following people for contributing to vagrant-multiprovider-snap:
- Reid Vandewiele
- James Sweeny
- Steven De Coeyer