I setup a private GitLab instance the other day and figured I could save people a lot of time by releasing a VMDK disk image. I plan on updating this with each new GitLab stable release.

Download the disk image here: gitlab-5.0-ubuntu-12.04lts.tar

Here are the details:

• VMDK virtual disk format (supported by vmware, QEMU, VirtualBox, and Suse Studio)
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64
• Default system user/pass gitlab-user/gitlab (please change via passwd)
• NIC is setup to DHCP
• 50GB Dynamic disk size
• Current GitLab stable release 5.0
• Default GitLab user admin@local.host/5iveL!fe

After install:
Edit /home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml and replace all instances of “localhost” with your own domain/ip.

Other:
If the nic doesn’t come back up when you setup your vm in VirtualBox here’s a way to fix it.

sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces
change eth0 to eth1 in the two lines where the nic is referenced.
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Or reset the mac address.