diff --git a/packer/http/opensuse-13.1/autoinst.xml b/packer/http/opensuse-13.1/autoinst.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..27243fe0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/http/opensuse-13.1/autoinst.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,243 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE profile>
+
+<!-- http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/autoyast/configuration.html -->
+
+<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">
+  <general>
+    <mode>
+      <confirm config:type="boolean">false</confirm>
+      <forceboot config:type="boolean">true</forceboot>
+      <final_reboot config:type="boolean">false</final_reboot>
+    </mode>
+  </general>
+  <report>
+    <messages>
+      <show config:type="boolean">false</show>
+      <timeout config:type="integer">10</timeout>
+      <log config:type="boolean">true</log>
+    </messages>
+    <warnings>
+      <show config:type="boolean">false</show>
+      <timeout config:type="integer">10</timeout>
+      <log config:type="boolean">true</log>
+    </warnings>
+    <errors>
+      <show config:type="boolean">false</show>
+      <timeout config:type="integer">10</timeout>
+      <log config:type="boolean">true</log>
+    </errors>
+  </report>
+
+  <keyboard>
+    <keymap>english-us</keymap>
+  </keyboard>
+  <language>
+    <language>en_US</language>
+    <languages>en_US</languages>
+  </language>
+  <timezone>
+    <hwclock>UTC</hwclock>
+    <timezone>Etc/UTC</timezone>
+  </timezone>
+
+  <partitioning config:type="list">
+    <drive>
+      <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
+      <partitions config:type="list">
+        <partition>
+          <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
+          <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
+          <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext4</filesystem>
+          <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id>
+          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
+          <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
+          <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
+          <mount>/boot</mount>
+          <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
+          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
+          <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
+          <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
+          <size>512M</size>
+        </partition>
+        <partition>
+          <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
+          <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
+          <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext4</filesystem>
+          <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id>
+          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
+          <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
+          <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
+          <mount>/</mount>
+          <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
+          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
+          <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
+          <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
+          <size>max</size>
+        </partition>
+        <partition>
+          <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
+          <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
+          <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
+          <filesystem_id config:type="integer">130</filesystem_id>
+          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
+          <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
+          <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
+          <mount>swap</mount>
+          <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
+          <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
+          <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
+          <resize config:type="boolean">false</resize>
+          <size>512M</size>
+        </partition>
+      </partitions>
+      <type config:type="symbol">CT_DISK</type>
+      <use>all</use>
+    </drive>
+  </partitioning>
+
+  <bootloader>
+    <loader_type>grub2</loader_type>
+  </bootloader>
+
+  <networking>
+    <ipv6 config:type="boolean">false</ipv6>
+    <keep_install_network config:type="boolean">true</keep_install_network>
+    <dns>
+      <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_hostname>
+      <dhcp_resolv config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_resolv>
+      <domain>local</domain>
+      <hostname>linux</hostname>
+    </dns>
+    <interfaces config:type="list">
+      <interface>
+        <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto>
+        <device>enp0s3</device>
+        <startmode>onboot</startmode>
+      </interface>
+      <interface>
+        <bootproto>dhcp</bootproto>
+        <device>ens33</device>
+        <startmode>onboot</startmode>
+      </interface>
+    </interfaces>
+  </networking>
+
+  <firewall>
+    <enable_firewall config:type="boolean">false</enable_firewall>
+    <start_firewall config:type="boolean">false</start_firewall>
+  </firewall>
+
+  <software>
+    <image/>
+    <instsource/>
+    <packages config:type="list">
+      <package>grub2</package>
+      <package>glibc-locale</package>
+      <package>iputils</package>
+      <package>kernel-default</package>
+      <package>kernel-default-devel</package>
+      <package>gcc</package>
+      <package>make</package>
+      <package>less</package>
+      <package>vim</package>
+      <package>sudo</package>
+      <package>screen</package>
+      <package>yast2</package>
+      <package>yast2-firstboot</package>
+      <package>zypper</package>
+      <package>yast2-trans-en_US</package>
+      <package>wget</package>
+      <package>curl</package>
+      <package>iproute2</package>
+      <package>ifplugd</package>
+      <package>kexec-tools</package>
+      <package>libdaemon0</package>
+      <package>libnl1</package>
+      <package>libxslt-tools</package>
+      <package>cryptsetup-mkinitrd</package>
+      <package>grub2-branding-openSUSE</package>
+      <package>rsyslog</package>
+    </packages>
+    <patterns config:type="list">
+      <pattern>sw_management</pattern>
+      <pattern>yast2_install_wf</pattern>
+      <pattern>base</pattern>
+    </patterns>
+    <remove-packages config:type="list">
+      <package>virtualbox-guest-kmp-default</package>
+      <package>virtualbox-guest-tools</package>
+    </remove-packages>
+  </software>
+
+  <runlevel>
+    <services config:type="list">
+      <service>
+        <service_name>sshd</service_name>
+        <service_start>3 5</service_start>
+      </service>
+    </services>
+  </runlevel>
+
+  <scripts>
+    <init-scripts config:type="list">
+      <script>
+        <debug config:type="boolean">true</debug>
+        <filename>restart_sshd.sh</filename>
+        <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
+        <source><![CDATA[#!/bin/bash
+systemctl restart sshd
+systemctl enable rsyslog
+systemctl start rsyslog
+]]></source>
+      </script>
+    </init-scripts>
+  </scripts>
+
+  <groups config:type="list">
+    <group>
+      <gid>100</gid>
+      <groupname>users</groupname>
+      <userlist/>
+    </group>
+  </groups>
+
+  <user_defaults>
+    <expire/>
+    <group>100</group>
+    <groups/>
+    <home>/home</home>
+    <inactive>-1</inactive>
+    <no_groups config:type="boolean">true</no_groups>
+    <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
+    <skel>/etc/skel</skel>
+    <umask>022</umask>
+  </user_defaults>
+
+  <users config:type="list">
+    <user>
+      <user_password>vagrant</user_password>
+      <username>root</username>
+    </user>
+    <user>
+      <fullname>vagrant</fullname>
+      <gid>100</gid>
+      <home>/home/vagrant</home>
+      <password_settings>
+        <expire/>
+        <flag/>
+        <inact>-1</inact>
+        <max>99999</max>
+        <min>0</min>
+        <warn>7</warn>
+      </password_settings>
+      <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
+      <uid>1000</uid>
+      <user_password>vagrant</user_password>
+      <username>vagrant</username>
+    </user>
+  </users>
+  <kdump>
+    <add_crash_kernel config:type="boolean">false</add_crash_kernel>
+  </kdump>
+</profile>
diff --git a/packer/opensuse-13.1-i386.json b/packer/opensuse-13.1-i386.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..48e718c0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/opensuse-13.1-i386.json
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+{
+  "builders": [
+    {
+      "boot_command": [
+        "<esc><enter><wait>",
+        "linux netsetup=dhcp install=cd:/<wait>",
+        " lang=en_US autoyast=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/opensuse-13.1/autoinst.xml<wait>",
+        " textmode=1<wait>",
+        "<enter><wait>"
+      ],
+      "boot_wait": "10s",
+      "disk_size": 20480,
+      "guest_additions_path": "VBoxGuestAdditions_{{.Version}}.iso",
+      "guest_os_type": "OpenSUSE",
+      "http_directory": "http",
+      "iso_checksum": "1bd6223430910f6d5a168d4e19171462",
+      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
+      "iso_url": "{{user `mirror`}}/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso",
+      "output_directory": "packer-opensuse-13.1-i386-virtualbox",
+      "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S /sbin/halt -h -p",
+      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_port": 22,
+      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
+      "type": "virtualbox-iso",
+      "vboxmanage": [
+        [
+          "modifyvm",
+          "{{.Name}}",
+          "--memory",
+          "480"
+        ],
+        [
+          "modifyvm",
+          "{{.Name}}",
+          "--cpus",
+          "1"
+        ]
+      ],
+      "virtualbox_version_file": ".vbox_version",
+      "vm_name": "packer-opensuse-13.1-i386"
+    },
+    {
+      "boot_command": [
+        "<esc><enter><wait>",
+        "linux netsetup=dhcp install=cd:/<wait>",
+        " lang=en_US autoyast=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/opensuse-13.1/autoinst.xml<wait>",
+        " textmode=1<wait>",
+        "<enter><wait>"
+      ],
+      "boot_wait": "10s",
+      "disk_size": 20480,
+      "guest_os_type": "opensuse",
+      "http_directory": "http",
+      "iso_checksum": "1bd6223430910f6d5a168d4e19171462",
+      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
+      "iso_url": "{{user `mirror`}}/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso",
+      "output_directory": "packer-opensuse-13.1-i386-vmware",
+      "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S /sbin/shutdown -h 1",
+      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_port": 22,
+      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
+      "tools_upload_flavor": "linux",
+      "type": "vmware-iso",
+      "vm_name": "packer-opensuse-13.1-i386",
+      "vmx_data": {
+        "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
+        "memsize": "480",
+        "numvcpus": "1"
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "post-processors": [
+    {
+      "output": "../builds/{{.Provider}}/opscode_opensuse-13.1-i386_chef-{{user `chef_version`}}.box",
+      "type": "vagrant"
+    }
+  ],
+  "provisioners": [
+    {
+      "environment_vars": [
+        "CHEF_VERSION={{user `chef_version`}}"
+      ],
+      "execute_command": "echo 'vagrant' | {{.Vars}} sudo -S -E sh '{{.Path}}'",
+      "scripts": [
+        "scripts/common/sshd.sh",
+        "scripts/common/vagrant.sh",
+        "scripts/common/vmtools.sh",
+        "scripts/common/chef.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/services.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/sudoers.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/zypper-locks.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/remove-dvd-source.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/cleanup.sh",
+        "scripts/common/minimize.sh"
+      ],
+      "type": "shell"
+    }
+  ],
+  "variables": {
+    "chef_version": "provisionerless",
+    "mirror": "http://download.opensuse.org/distribution"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packer/opensuse-13.1-x86_64.json b/packer/opensuse-13.1-x86_64.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f2aa800b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/opensuse-13.1-x86_64.json
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+{
+  "builders": [
+    {
+      "boot_command": [
+        "<esc><enter><wait>",
+        "linux netsetup=dhcp install=cd:/<wait>",
+        " lang=en_US autoyast=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/opensuse-13.1/autoinst.xml<wait>",
+        " textmode=1<wait>",
+        "<enter><wait>"
+      ],
+      "boot_wait": "10s",
+      "disk_size": 20480,
+      "guest_additions_path": "VBoxGuestAdditions_{{.Version}}.iso",
+      "guest_os_type": "OpenSUSE_64",
+      "http_directory": "http",
+      "iso_checksum": "1096c9c67fc8a67a94a32d04a15e909d",
+      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
+      "iso_url": "{{user `mirror`}}/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso",
+      "output_directory": "packer-opensuse-13.1-x86_64-virtualbox",
+      "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S /sbin/halt -h -p",
+      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_port": 22,
+      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
+      "type": "virtualbox-iso",
+      "vboxmanage": [
+        [
+          "modifyvm",
+          "{{.Name}}",
+          "--memory",
+          "480"
+        ],
+        [
+          "modifyvm",
+          "{{.Name}}",
+          "--cpus",
+          "1"
+        ]
+      ],
+      "virtualbox_version_file": ".vbox_version",
+      "vm_name": "packer-opensuse-13.1-x86_64"
+    },
+    {
+      "boot_command": [
+        "<esc><enter><wait>",
+        "linux netsetup=dhcp install=cd:/<wait>",
+        " lang=en_US autoyast=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/opensuse-13.1/autoinst.xml<wait>",
+        " textmode=1<wait>",
+        "<enter><wait>"
+      ],
+      "boot_wait": "10s",
+      "disk_size": 20480,
+      "guest_os_type": "opensuse-64",
+      "http_directory": "http",
+      "iso_checksum": "1096c9c67fc8a67a94a32d04a15e909d",
+      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
+      "iso_url": "{{user `mirror`}}/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso",
+      "output_directory": "packer-opensuse-13.1-x86_64-vmware",
+      "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S /sbin/shutdown -h 1",
+      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_port": 22,
+      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
+      "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
+      "tools_upload_flavor": "linux",
+      "type": "vmware-iso",
+      "vm_name": "packer-opensuse-13.1-x86_64",
+      "vmx_data": {
+        "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
+        "memsize": "480",
+        "numvcpus": "1"
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "post-processors": [
+    {
+      "output": "../builds/{{.Provider}}/opscode_opensuse-13.1-x86_64_chef-{{user `chef_version`}}.box",
+      "type": "vagrant"
+    }
+  ],
+  "provisioners": [
+    {
+      "environment_vars": [
+        "CHEF_VERSION={{user `chef_version`}}"
+      ],
+      "execute_command": "echo 'vagrant' | {{.Vars}} sudo -S -E sh '{{.Path}}'",
+      "scripts": [
+        "scripts/common/sshd.sh",
+        "scripts/common/vagrant.sh",
+        "scripts/common/vmtools.sh",
+        "scripts/common/chef.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/services.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/sudoers.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/zypper-locks.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/remove-dvd-source.sh",
+        "scripts/opensuse/cleanup.sh",
+        "scripts/common/minimize.sh"
+      ],
+      "type": "shell"
+    }
+  ],
+  "variables": {
+    "chef_version": "provisionerless",
+    "mirror": "http://download.opensuse.org/distribution"
+  }
+}
+
diff --git a/packer/scripts/opensuse/cleanup.sh b/packer/scripts/opensuse/cleanup.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e466416d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/scripts/opensuse/cleanup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash -eux
+# These were only needed for building VMware/Virtualbox extensions:
+zypper -n rm -u binutils gcc make site-config patterns-openSUSE-yast2_install_wf
+# backlist i2c_piix4 - VirtualBox has no smbus
+echo "blacklist i2c_piix4" > /etc/modprobe.d/100-blacklist-i2c_piix4.conf
+# remove all kernels except current running
+rpm -qa | grep kernel-default | grep -v `uname -r | awk -F"-" '{print $1"-"$2}'` | xargs rpm -ehv
diff --git a/packer/scripts/opensuse/remove-dvd-source.sh b/packer/scripts/opensuse/remove-dvd-source.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..adbf70616
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/scripts/opensuse/remove-dvd-source.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh -eux
+
+zypper removerepo "openSUSE-13.1-1.10"
+rpm --import http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/gpg-pubkey-3dbdc284-4be1884d.asc
+rpm --import http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/gpg-pubkey-307e3d54-4be01a65.asc
+zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/ opensuse-13.1-oss
+zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/ opensuse-13.1-non-oss
+zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1/ opensuse-13.1-update
+zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1-non-oss/ opensuse-13.1-update-non-oss
+zypper refresh
+zypper update -y
diff --git a/packer/scripts/opensuse/services.sh b/packer/scripts/opensuse/services.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51891328b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/scripts/opensuse/services.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh -eux
+
+systemctl enable sshd
+systemctl enable network
+systemctl enable rsyslog
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packer/scripts/opensuse/sudoers.sh b/packer/scripts/opensuse/sudoers.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a80d47031
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/scripts/opensuse/sudoers.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh -eux
+
+# update sudoers - can't do this in autoinst.xml
+echo -e "\nupdate sudoers ..."
+echo -e "vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL\n" >> /etc/sudoers
diff --git a/packer/scripts/opensuse/zypper-locks.sh b/packer/scripts/opensuse/zypper-locks.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a9e4e4ffb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/scripts/opensuse/zypper-locks.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh -eux
+
+# remove zypper locks on removed packages to avoid later dependency problems
+zypper --non-interactive rl \*