We will use official box "ubuntu/xenial64" and modify it to work with Vagrant.

• Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    #   # Display the VirtualBox GUI when booting the machine
    #   vb.gui = true
    #
    #   # Customize the amount of memory on the VM:
    vb.memory = "1524"
  end


end

• run Virtual machine (VM)

vagrant up

• login to VM

vagrant ssh

• fix hostname in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 ubuntu-xenial

This will fix error:

"sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu-xenial

• add (or modify) line in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"

• update

sudo update-grub

• so we will have interface named 'eth1'

• reboot VM

vagrant reload

• To use Ansible we need to install Python 2

sudo apt-get install python

• commit the box

vagrant package

it will create *.box file in the current directory.

You can use this box file to add to the local vagrant repository or copy it to another server.

• use new box in Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "my/ubuntu-xenial64"
  
  ..
end  

• we will use our new box with python 2 and renamed interface.
• And we will use Ansible to provision VM

• we will add a new interface 'eth1' with static IP

• Vagrantfile

HOSTNAME = 'debugserver'
IP = "51.0.99.120"
NETWORK_MASK = "255.0.0.0"
NETWORK_GATEWAY = "51.0.0.1"


Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "my/ubuntu-xenial64"
  
  # IP
  config.vm.network "public_network", auto_config: false, :bridge => "eth0", ip: "#{IP}"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    #   # Display the VirtualBox GUI when booting the machine
    #   vb.gui = true
    #
    #   # Customize the amount of memory on the VM:
    vb.memory = "1524"
  end


  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |p|
    p.playbook = "playbook.yml"
    p.verbose        = true
    p.extra_vars =
        {
            machine: "main",
            public_ip: IP,
            public_mask: NETWORK_MASK,
            public_gateway: NETWORK_GATEWAY,
        }
  end
  
end