generic vagrant boxes are dead

[silug]

None of the boxes at generic have been updated in over 2 years, and there are no boxes available for relatively recent operating systems like Ubuntu 24.04.

beaker-hostgenerator/lib/beaker-hostgenerator/hypervisor/vagrant.rb

Line 25 in 9ab92ef

"generic/#{node_info['ostype']}"

lib/beaker-hostgenerator/hypervisor/vagrant.rb defaults to using generic/ for box names.

bento might be an acceptable substitute, but the names don't line up cleanly. (generic/ubuntu2204 would have to be replaced with bento/ubuntu-22.04, for example.)

[ekohl]

bento might be an acceptable substitute, but the names don't line up cleanly. (generic/ubuntu2204 would have to be replaced with bento/ubuntu-22.04, for example.)

Adding another platform specific case is probably needed:

beaker-hostgenerator/lib/beaker-hostgenerator/hypervisor/vagrant.rb

Lines 28 to 42 in 9ab92ef

	case node_info['platform']
	when /^debian(\d+)-64/
	version = Regexp.last_match(1)
	if (codename = DEBIAN_VERSION_CODES[version])
	base_config['box'] = "debian/#{codename}64"
	end
	when /^centos(\d+)-64/
	version = Regexp.last_match(1)
	if version.to_i >= 8
	base_config['box'] = "centos/stream#{version}"
	base_config['box_url'] = "https://cloud.centos.org/centos/#{version}-stream/x86_64/images/CentOS-Stream-Vagrant-#{version}-latest.x86_64.vagrant-libvirt.box"
	else
	base_config = "centos/#{version}"
	end
	end

[marcusdots]

I tried and I am very unhappy with the result.
https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker-hostgenerator/pull/461/changes

      ROCKY_LINUX_BOXES = {
        # there is no generic/rocky10, so we introduce this workaround
        # bento/ does not support libvirt
        '10' => 'cloud-image/rocky-10',
        '9' => 'generic/rocky9',
        '8' => 'generic/rocky8',
      }.freeze
      ORACLE_LINUX_BOXES = {
        '10' => 'cloud-image/rocky-10', # We know this is wrong, but there is no Oracle-10
        '9' => 'generic/oracle9',
        '8' => 'generic/oracle8',
      }.freeze
      UBUNTU_LINUX_BOXES = {
        '2404' => 'crystax/ubuntu24.04',
        '2204' => 'generic/ubuntu2204',
      }.freeze

I propose to write a generic mapping of {osname-osversion => vendor/box }