Feature: Automate tools install

[ryansch]

I'm using docker-machine alongside RancherOS instead of boot2docker and everything works great except I'm missing the guest tools. I would expect this plugin to automate that install.

[ryansch]

I understand that each distro is going to be particular. I'd be happy with a way to specify my own provisioner.

[rickard-von-essen]

This it would be interesting to have a install script that try to install prl tools on different OS'es. There is only a few that are interesting, RancherOS, CoreOS, RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Atomic host, etc.

Do you just do:

docker-machine create prl -driver parallels -parallels-boot2docker-url https://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/rancheros.iso

[ryansch]

Here's the script I'm using to start VMs:

#!/bin/bash

MACHINE_NAME=$1
MEMORY=$2

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"

if [ -z "$MACHINE_NAME" ]; then
  echo 'machine name required'
  exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$MEMORY" ]; then
  MEMORY="2048"
fi

RANCHER_OS_VERSION=v0.4.3-rc2
RANCHER_OS_URL=https://github.com/rancher/os/releases/download/$RANCHER_OS_VERSION/rancheros.iso
RANCHER_OS_FILE=$DIR/cache/$RANCHER_OS_VERSION/rancheros.iso

mkdir -p $DIR/cache/$RANCHER_OS_VERSION

if [ ! -e $RANCHER_OS_FILE ]; then
  curl -L -o $DIR/cache/$RANCHER_OS_VERSION/rancheros.iso $RANCHER_OS_URL
fi

docker-machine create --driver=parallels --parallels-memory=$MEMORY --parallels-boot2docker-url $DIR/cache/$RANCHER_OS_VERSION/rancheros.iso $MACHINE_NAME

I have to precache the iso or docker-machine will download it every time.

For RancherOS I'm looking to insert the kernel module through a docker container as the default console isn't persistent.

[ryansch]

So I started hacking on this project but then I realized I could do it all through docker. Here is the result:

https://github.com/outstand/docker-parallels-tools

I have this working as a system service (in user docker) in RancherOS v0.4.3-rc3 under Parallels Desktop for Mac 11.1.2-32408.