title: Is it possible for Vagrant to use an OS .ISO install image directly/or create a Vagrant box from an ISO on the fly?
body: <p>Is it possible to automate the creation of a Vagrant .box file for an OS install, from the original ISO?</p>
  
  <p>To me, this is a significant gap in the end-to-end automation of Operating System install and configuration on a Virtual Machine that Vagrant provides.</p>
  
  <p>Sure, VagrantBox.es provides many base .box OS install files for usage. But some are from third party suppliers and not from the original OS distribution maker. For example Arch Linux: Arch Linux 64 (2012-07-02) <a href="http://vagrant.pouss.in/archlinux_2012-07-02.box" rel="noreferrer">http://vagrant.pouss.in/archlinux_2012-07-02.box</a></p>
  
  <p>Not wanting to be negative about the efforts of third-party suppliers, but some organisations may want the original install image from the original OS provider (e.g. for the Arch example above, this would be: <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/download/" rel="noreferrer">https://www.archlinux.org/download/</a> ). Reasons for wanting original install image would be security (as it would not be possible to verify the third party image for security compromises and malware) and getting the image as the original suppliers intended without extra stuff not required. Another reason would be to take advantage of new releases direct from the original supplier and not have to wait for a third party to release it as a Vagrant .box</p>
  
  <p>There are guides for creating a .box file from a .ISO image:</p>
  
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  <li><a href="http://www.practicalweb.co.uk/blog/12/10/16/how-build-centos-6-base-box-vagrant" rel="noreferrer">http://www.practicalweb.co.uk/blog/12/10/16/how-build-centos-6-base-box-vagrant</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://pyfunc.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/creating-base-box-from-scratch-for.html" rel="noreferrer">http://pyfunc.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/creating-base-box-from-scratch-for.html</a></li>
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  <p>But these are manual steps - which goes against the philosphy behind Vagrant of automation and consistency. Especially if many want to achieve the end goal of being able to use the original - this would end up with duplicate effort on everyone's part.</p>
  
  <p>So I would be looking here from a definitive answer that describes how to make a generic automation script to convert a .ISO OS install image into a Vagrant box.</p>