convert-virtualbox-box-to-libvirt-box.md

Convert Virtualbox box to libvirt box

When using vagrant, sometimes the box one needs to use does not support the providers available on the system. In order to solve this issue, a vagrant plugin called vagrant-mutate was created which allows one to convert boxes made for a specific provider to another provider.

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-mutate

It is simple to use, just specify the box you which to convert, and the target provider that you use:

$ vagrant mutate nixos/nixos-18.03-x86_64 libvirt

Sometimes one might face issues when running the converted box. For instance in the above example, the converted nixos box suffers some issues with NFS. Therefore a quick hack is to override such defaults by changing the nfs to rsnyc or even disable it