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Every time I run

kitchen test

it downloads a new vm box. Is there a way to make it re-use a locally downloaded box?

Here is my .kitchen.yml file.

---

driver_plugin: vagrant

driver_config:

  require_chef_omnibus: true



platforms:

  - name: ubuntu-12.04



suites:

  - name: default

    run_list:

      - recipe[my-rails-server::default]

    attributes:

Terminal output:

Downloading Chef  for ubuntu...       

downloading https://www.opscode.com/chef/metadata?v=&prerelease=false&p=ubuntu&pv=12.04&m=x86_64       

to file /tmp/install.sh.1121/metadata.txt       

trying wget...       

url https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/chef_11.10.0-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb       

md5 21524287ed5631eb1c092ba7b589e968       

sha256  7a0a898b3682462620de80230c7a73730dde7131ca069e1d926f6faf07e4fa2f       

downloaded metadata file looks valid...       

downloading https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/chef_11.10.0-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb       

to file /tmp/install.sh.1121/chef_11.10.0-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb       

trying wget...       

Checksum compare with sha256sum succeeded.       

Installing Chef        

If by "downloads a new VM box", you mean destroys and creates one, yes, that's what kitchen test does. If you want to persist the instance, just run

kitchen converge

If you mean that Vagrant is downloading a new box from the Internet, then that's likely a bug in Vagrant.

Test Kitchen creates its own Vagrantfile, based on .kitchen.yml config.

Therefore you have to specify your box (which should be already available for Vagrant, check vagrant box list) in .kitchen.yml. In your example it would be:

platforms:

- name: ubuntu-12.04

  driver:

    box: centos-6.5-x86_64-minimal

And kitchen will use box available for Vagrant, without downloading it.

You can also specify other Vagrant options, e.g.

- name: centos-vagrant

  driver:

    provider: parallels

    box: centos-6.5-x86_64-minimal

    customize:

      memsize: 1024

      cpus: 2

You can see more examples eg. in my Vagrant cookbooks lemp-server or or Opscode's yum.

Use the following command

exec kitchen converge ubuntu

converge will regex of instances

Use the following definition in your kitchen.yml to disable box updates

platforms:

  - name: centos-7

    driver:

      box: bento/centos-7

      box_check_update: false

where the box is a locally available vagrant box in your host. Run the following command to get a list of available boxes:

$ vagrant box list

bento/centos-6.7           (virtualbox, 2.2.7)

bento/centos-7             (virtualbox, 201808.24.0)