Vagrant

Virtualbox provider guide

Install
Prerequisites

apt-get -y install virtualbox virtualbox-dkms vagrant

VM image

vagrant box add trusty64 https://oss-

binaries.phusionpassenger.com/vagrant/boxes/latest/ubuntu-14.04-amd64-
vbox.box
Operate
Start image

vagrant init && vagrant up

Connect

vagrant ssh

Suspend or shutdown

vagrant suspend && vagrant halt

Provisioning
Create bootstrap.sh with all the configuration

Modify Vagrantfile

config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"

Provision

vagrant provision
Bootstrap as a regular user
By default script is run as root, to run as a different user do the following.
case $(id -u) in

0) # doing root tasks

sudo -u vagrant -i $0

;;

*) # doing user tasks

;;

esac
Configure CPU and RAM
Modify Vagrantfile

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpuexecutioncap", "50"]

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "4"]

end
Configure network
Modify Vagrantfile

config.vm.network "public_network", bridge: "br-1", ip: "192.168.56.2"

config.vm.network "public_network", bridge: "br-2", ip: "192.168.57.2"

config.vm.network "public_network", bridge: "br-3", ip: "192.168.58.2"

Copy files to VM
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
# ... other configuration

config.vm.provision "file", source: "~/.gitconfig", destination: ".gitconfig"

end
GUI
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.gui = true
end
References
Vagrant virtualbox configuration

How to make Vagrant performance not suck

My blog
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