After reading 开发环境搭建 - MacOS, I found using homestead is very easy and convenient. But I if mess something up, do I have to work from scratch? How to create my own homestead?

After reading some other articles, I realized the homestead is a custom vagrant, so I read part of the vagrant docs.

When I felt that all were ready, I tried to create my own homestead.

Pack the current environment

cd ~/Homestead
mkdir someDirectory         # change to your own directory name
vagrant package --output someDirectory/virtualbox.box
cd someDirectory
vi metadata.json 

Type the following code below:

{
    "name": "my_lc/homestead",
    "versions":
    [
        {
            "version": "6.1.0",
            "providers": [
                {
                    "name": "virtualbox",
                    "url": "virtualbox.box"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Then add the box to vagrant

> vagrant box add metadata.json
==> box: Loading metadata for box 'metadata.json'
    box: URL: file:///Path/someDirectory/metadata.json
==> box: Adding box 'my_lc/homestead' (v6.1.0) for provider: virtualbox
    box: Downloading: virtualbox.box
==> box: Successfully added box 'my_lc/homestead' (v6.1.0) for 'virtualbox'!

you can see the added box list

> vagrant box list
laravel/homestead (virtualbox, 6.1.0)
lc/homestead      (virtualbox, 6.1.0)
my_lc/homestead   (virtualbox, 6.1.0)

Edit the homestead.yaml, add some parameters

cd ~/Homestead
vi Homestead.yaml

add some parameters as below:

name: my_homestead-7       # name is the name of VM
box: my_lc/homestead         # box is the logical name of vagrant box, u can find it in metadata.json or specify it when u add box with --name flag.

Cleanup

Delete the verbose box file and clean VM files

vagrant box remove lc/homestead

Then go to the virtualbox UI, choose the VM u want to delete, select remove on the context menu, press the "Delete all files" button on the popup.

Enjoy the work!

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