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1. USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX INSTALL
2. USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX ZIP FILE
3. USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX PORTABLE
4. USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS 8

USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX INSTALL

There are three main components you need to get used to with (official terminology may differ)Īfter you install Vagrant (with default options) you find a new directory in your system drive - C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant So this would be the vagrant big picture (as I understand) once installed on your machine: Provisions can be as simple as running command via Shell scripts or advance like using Puppet, Chef and Ansible. Provisioners - This is the way you can do actions, routines and setups. Vmware as 'vmware_fusion', VirtualBox as 'virtualbox'. Providers are recognized in Vagrant by names. Providers - As already mentioned before, Vagrant runs on top of your existing Virtualization platform. You can access already created community boxes available for you to get started. You can create your own new box or modify existing installed box as per your needs and pack it again to be used as template in your next Vagrant environment. Think of this boxes as template VM that will be used as the base to create your virtual machines. This Virtual machine will be vendor specific based on your needs. box extension that has a packed Virtual machine in it along with related files.

USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX ZIP FILE

Vagrant is a command-line utility on top of your virtualization to bring automation in workflow and actions.īoxes - Its basically a zip file with. At time of this writing I am using Vagrant vagrant version There is lot more to it beyond Init and Up. This will build-up and run a environment in minutes (only box download penalty for first time). You can literally get into action in two commands: vagrant init It supports all the above three virtualization platform and download / installing / using vagrant is very simple thing.

USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX PORTABLE

Plus, it would take me few minutes to hours before I can start my actually work.Ĭreate and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. But in sometime I realized that I started spending unnecessary time in preparing VMs for those nasty things. Using a virtualization platform bring a lot of advantages, now I am glad my host machine (Windows 8.1 Pro) is always clean and does not become victim of my random dirty reseaches, learning or evaluations. I had evaluated this option long back and finally decided to stick with it now.

VMWare is the paid virtualization solution and every penny spent is worth the product. Best choice for virtualizing windows machines though. I won't say it sucks but I expected a lot more. I gave it a shot for few months but was disappointed by the limited support for virtualizing non-windows systems.

USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS 8

Hyper-V is already there as a component in your Windows 8 or 2012 machine. I have been using Virtual Box since last 3 years now, everyday and it is open source and totally awesome, you won't regret. Few big guns that makes their way in your environment are: Using a virtulization platform is a common thing these days, unless you still build things on your grandma's machine.Ĭloud computing is application of this feature to bring unlimited options, power, scalability and flexibility to your business.īut we use virtulization for developement too, a lot I say.