Change cpu, memory and other from the config file with vboxmanage options in the packer templates

[Svieg]

A quick look-up told me that we could add vboxmanage options in the profiles so the user could easily modify those options in config.js

[Svieg]

That would only require to template the builder_virtualbox_windows.json snippet as I can tell

[obilodeau]

Yes, we could iterate on a dict adding modifyvm lines in this list:

                "vboxmanage": [
                        ["modifyvm", "{{ '{{.Name}}' }}", "--memory", "4096"],
                        ["modifyvm", "{{ '{{.Name}}' }}", "--cpus", "1"]
                ],

Something like:

                "vboxmanage": [
                        ["modifyvm", "{{ '{{.Name}}' }}", "--memory", "4096"],
                        ["modifyvm", "{{ '{{.Name}}' }}", "--cpus", "1"],
                        {% for key, value in my_dict.iteritems() %}
                        ["modifyvm", "{{ '{{.Name}}' }}", "--{{ key }}", "{{ value }}"],
                        {% endfor %}
                ],

But we need to be careful with the dangling comma. Maybe put CPU last and without a terminating comma.

Anyway, I would 👍 such a change.

[Svieg]

Cool, I'll check that.