@openstrap/virtualbox

The VirtualBox provider for openstrap: a blueprint says provider: virtualbox, and the machine it describes is made, started, reached and, when asked, removed through VBoxManage.

What it does with a blueprint's target:

• fetches the image openstrap resolved (a cloud image in a Vagrant box), turns it into a VDI disk with qemu-img, and grows it to the size the blueprint asks for;
• makes an EFI machine on the ARM or x86 platform, with a virtio NAT card, and forwards SSH and every port of a public service to the same port on this computer;
• seeds it with cloud-init: the openstrap user and its key, password login off;
• publishes a port on a machine that already exists without restarting it, because VirtualBox takes a NAT rule while the machine runs.

It needs VirtualBox 7.1 or newer and qemu-img (brew install --cask virtualbox, brew install qemu). On Apple silicon VirtualBox runs ARM guests only.