Migrate away from vmdebootstrap (and possibly from Vagrant)
Originally created by @intrigeri on #15349 (Redmine)
We use vmdebootstrap to build the VM image used for building Tails ISO images with Vagrant (vagrant/definitions/tails-builder/generate-tails-builder-box.sh)..) vmdebootstrap barely made it in Buster and might not be in Bullseye.
Sources of inspiration:
- https://wiki.debian.org/SystemBuildTools
- https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/fai-cloud-images
- https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/vagrant-boxes
- https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/qemu-vm/
And wrt. replacing Vagrant altogether, see:
- vagrant-libvirt has no maintainer as of 2020-02-14
- It would be nice, for long term perspectives, if our build system worked in a standard GitLab CI worker environment. Needing KVM support is probably an obstacle.
- #7580 (closed) and https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/replace_vagrant/
- #7530 (closed) and https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/evaluate_Docker/
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Related issues
- Related to #7530 (closed)
- Related to #7580 (closed)
- Related to #15864 (closed)
- Related to #5691 (closed)
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