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Veewee-to-Packer
If you are or were a user of Veewee, then there is an official tool called veewee-to-packer that will convert your Veewee definition into an equivalent Packer template. Even if you're not a Veewee user, Veewee has a large library of templates that can be readily used with Packer by simply converting them.
Installation and Usage
Since Veewee itself is a Ruby project, so too is the veewee-to-packer application so that it can read the Veewee configurations. Install it using RubyGems:
$ gem install veewee-to-packer
...
Once installed, usage is easy! Just point veewee-to-packer
at the definition.rb file of any template. The converter will output
any warnings or messages about the conversion. The example below converts
a CentOS template:
$ veewee-to-packer templates/CentOS-6.4/definition.rb
Success! Your Veewee definition was converted to a Packer
template! The template can be found in the `template.json` file
in the output directory: output
Please be sure to run `packer validate` against the new template
to verify settings are correct. Be sure to `cd` into the directory
first, since the template has relative paths that expect you to
use it from the same working directory.
Voila! By default, veewee-to-packer will output a template that
contains a builder for both VirtualBox and VMware. You can use the
-only flag on packer build to only build one of them. Otherwise
you can use the --builder flag on veewee-to-packer to only output
specific builder configurations.
Limitations
None, really. The tool will tell you if it can't convert a part of a template, and whether that is a critical error or just a warning. Most of Veewee's functions translate perfectly over to Packer. There are still a couple missing features in Packer, but they're minimal.
Bugs
If you find any bugs, please report them to the veewee-to-packer issue tracker. I haven't been able to exhaustively test every Veewee template, so there are certainly some edge cases out there.