Virtualbox is available for many different systems, and there are many Vagrant boxes available for it. You will need to install a provider on your machine to allow vagrant to work with it.Ī good provider to start with is Virtualbox. Vagrant does not work with virtual machines directly – it is more of a wrapper or interface to different virtual machine ‘ providers‘ which actually run and control the virtual machines. Vagrant itself is easy to install on Windows, OSX and Linux systems.

Installation and Setup Installing Vagrant Vagrant is configured using simple plain text files, which are easy to share and put under version control. Vagrant is a Hashicorp tool for building and managing virtual machines, whicih acts like a wrapper around different virtual machine providers to allow a consistent interface. This post picks out some basic vagrant commands and works through the installation and basic usage of vagrant. Vagrant commands are generally quite sensible and often a guess at what the command might be gives the rights of others you answer, but there are rather a lot of them. Vagrant is a command line tool for managing virtual machines.

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