How to set disk size for a virtualbox vm in Chef's Test Kitchen

Question

Pretty much what the title says: I need Kitchen to tell VirtualBox that the VM's hard drive should be 500gb. I've scoured the docs and not found anything (kitchen.ci).

Am I just not looking in the right places?

Answer 1

the disk size is given by the box that you are using. though, you can override it using vagrant-disksize.

1. install vagrant-disksize plugin for vagrant

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-disksize
   

2. create a Vagrantfile that looks like the following

   Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
     config.vagrant.plugins = ['vagrant-disksize']
     config.disksize.size = '50GB'
   end
   

3. add the Vagrantfil to the vagrantfiles in the driver configuration in .kitchen.yaml

   ---
   driver:
     vagrantfiles:
       - Vagrantfile