Run vagrant on your Windows

by Piotr Stapp — on vagrant tutorial devops 05 Sep 2014

Windows machine :)
Install vagrant form https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
Install git with tools (or other ssh.exe client) + add folder to PATH. In powershell just invoke
$env:PATH +=";C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin"
Configure folder for boxes.
It is useful when you want to work in offline mode. The easy way is to create mklink to store files in same place. Start cmd as admin and run (of course change second path to proper one):
mklink /D c:\vagrantfiles d:\downloads\vagrantfiles
Download Oracle VM VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/ (or other prefered virtualization product). Vagrant already supports Virtualbox, VMWare and Hyper-V :)

Create new folder. Let's call it test-vagrant
Enter it and type: vagrant init
Open Vagrantfile in your favorite notepad and:
- Change the box name
- Add url to the box like: config.vm.box_url = "file:///c:/vagrantfiles/CentOS-6.4-i386-v20131103.box"
Run vagrant up to create and start the VM
Run vagrant ssh to validate if it is working
Run vagrant destroy to delete the machine

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