We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.4.1708 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.4). All included packages have been updated to 9 January 2017 and include important fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting modern processors. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions […]

We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.4.1708 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.4). All included packages have been updated to 28 October 2017 and the centos/7 images no longer include the package documentation installed by default, reducing the image size by around […]

We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.4.1708 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.4). All included packages have been updated to 12 September 2017. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the […]

We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.3.1611 for x86_64, featuring updated packages to 31 July 2017 and the following changes: we are again using the same kickstarts for Hyper-V and the other hypervisors you can now login on the serial console (useful if networking is […]

2017-07-14: We have release version 1706.02 of centos/6, which fixes a regression introduced by the "stack clash" patch (this made Java crash, just like on centos/7). The packages were all updated to 2017-07-14, and include additional fixes. 2017-07-05: We have released version 1706.02 of centos/7, providing RHBA-2017:1674-1, which fixes a regression introduced by the patch […]

Starting with v1705, we are starting to offer the official CentOS images for Vagrant, for the Hyper-V provider. Hyper-V is Microsoft's native hypervisor, available by default in Windows Server 2008 and newer, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 10 Pro, and Windows Hyper-V Server 2012; since it also powers Microsoft Azure, it's probably a good alternative to […]

2017-06-21: We have released version 1705.02 of the official CentOS Linux images for Vagrant, providing important security fixes in glibc and the Linux kernel, addressing the "stack clash" vulnerability. We advise all users to update to this new release. Existing boxes don't need to be destroyed and recreated: running sudo yum update inside the box […]

We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.3.1611 for x86_64, featuring updated packages to 30 April 2017 and the following changes: kdump has been removed from the images, since it needs to reserve 160MB + 2bits/4kB RAM for the crash kernel, and automatic allocation only works […]

We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.8 and CentOS Linux 7.3.1611 for x86_64, featuring updated packages to 30 March 2017 and the following changes: The VMware images now use the paravirtualized SCSI controller (the kernel module for the LSILogic controller has been deprecated upstream). The VMware images now specify […]

We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.8 and CentOS Linux 7.3.1611 for x86_64, featuring updated packages to 28 February 2017. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the vagrant-vbguest plugin and add the following line to your Vagrantfile: […]