I want to use vagrant-vsphere and went through the steps described in https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere/blob/master/README.md
Installation went fine. Now I am at this step:
After installing the plugin, you must create a vSphere box. The example_box directory contains a metadata.json file that can be used to create a dummy box with the command:
tar cvzf dummy.box ./metadata.json
How do I create this dummy.box?
Am I right to suppose that I need to create a VMware base box? I read here that
A VMware base box is a compressed archive of the necessary contents of a VMware "vmwarevm" file.
But I cannot find a vmwarevm file.
... I am on Windows using vmware workstation 12.
Go to: https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere/tree/master/example_box and download the metadata.json file. Move this file to your vagrant project directory and run the following command in your terminal:
tar cvzf dummy.box ./metadata.json
This command will output a file with the name dummy.box, this is what you use on your Vagrantfile.
I am not sure but this dummy box I think is supposed to be just a filler cause all Vagrant projects require to have a box but since you are using the vSphere plugin you will actually be cloning VMs from templates that are already on your vSphere server.