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Uh.. you don't need a license to use VirtualBox:

> VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

That's the first paragraph of text on the VirtualBox website (emphasis added).

personally i use chocolatey Chocolatey to install packages and it install vagrant and puts it on the system path for you and this is all on windows so there shouldn't be a problem doing it this way.

Use before and after properties to define order of provisioning blocks.

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/basic\_usage

Edit: It's an experimental feature, is there any reason you can't fetch from your host to your guest? Doesn't Vagrant also sync a shared folder?

What is the type of content that you are needing to use in the VM? Could you just put it in a synced folder (https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/) and keep the actual git repo and process located on your host machine?

put Alpha and Bravo each in their own network, and put a third box Charlie in both networks. You can do that with 1 Vagrantfile

On box C you can then do all the firewall things you want. You can use the tc command on C to simulate network problems. Google 'linux tc simulate network problems' for more.

You may want to try disabling the public_network first and see if you can get port forwarding working as you intend (see https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/networking/forwarded_ports.html) as a baseline.

I think that's exact problem I'm talking about. I also found this ticket for VirtualBox. It confirms flakiness of the "issue" as it happens periodically. You saved my day.

I didn't experiment with Vagrant specifically as much before, so I wouldn't have a knowledge about Mac Virtualization issue. However, I did work with VirtualBox and it worked fine. That's the one I would never figure out. Thanks!

rsync is the backup tool Vagrant uses to sync files when the default Virtualbox shared folder extension isn't installed.

Try installing the Virtualbox Extension Pack from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

You can also try to install rsync for Windows, but I've never tried going that route.

> Also Ive had issue with synced folders not mounting on the first "vagrant up" and needing a "Halt" and "vagrant up" to make it happen.

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/rsync is reliable...

This minimal vagrantfile will share the current directory (on your workstation) with the virtual machine. The files will be available on the VM in the directory /vagrant

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "generic/rocky8" config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/vagrant" end

You can edit your Vagrantfile the same way if /vagrant isn't shared already.

After vagrant reload you move or copy the files in your screenshot to /vagrant and you can edit them in an editor on the OSX side.

Check the docs for more info: https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders

That is expected behavior, as the first NIC will always be NAT, as it is created specifically for Vagrant itself to communicate with the VM. See https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/networking#there-is-a-nat-available.

As the article clearly states, cachefilesd should be installed in the instance. In the section that is focused on cachefilesd, the author says that you can install it manually in your instance to try it out, provides an example of the commands to run, and then shows you how to update your Vagrantfile to avoid manual repetition.

Did you read the article?

In my (very) humble opinion* I would suggest provisioning your instances with Docker, anyways. It's much lighter and quicker than Virtualbox in my experience; there's no reason not to use it as you can (and should) run the isolated containers for all services on the remote, too.

* - I have only recently started using both Vagrant and Docker, so while my opinion is not a ramshackle thought, other people may be better educated on the subject.

I've never used Vagrant for Windows so I don't know how the ash command works with Windows VMs if it's even different to Linux but assuming it's just plain old ash you'll need to have an ash server running on the Windows VM, try this guide: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server

> should I be downloading it from my host machine command line after ‘vagrant ssh’?

it is a one way of altering VM state ))

> Or should I be downloading it from the shell commands in my Vagrantfile

it is another way and called https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/providers

> I wonder how will I also download libraries like PyQt5?

As usual when you connect to host via SSH (or WinRM).

Ansible is quite easy compared to Puppet, give it a go otherwise your Vagrant file can include shell scripting:

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html

> Vagrant does not yet know how to create and configure new networks for Hyper-V. When launching a machine with Hyper-V, Vagrant will prompt you asking what virtual switch you want to connect the virtual machine to.

> A result of this is that networking configurations in the Vagrantfile are completely ignored with Hyper-V. Vagrant cannot enforce a static IP or automatically configure a NAT.

> However, the IP address of the machine will be reported as part of the vagrant up, and you can use that IP address as if it were a host only network.

Literally in the documentation

The 192.168.2.107 is probably an address given by your router, and if you're not at home there is no 192.168.2.* net (or a different one).

If you don't need to reach the VM from outside of your laptop, you can use a private network instead.

Assuming firewalls don't get in the way, you're on the same network (vpn), that sort of thing:

Vagrant Share might be up your alley: https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/share/

I've only used it once or twice with coworkers to ssh into their vagrant instances, but you'd run something like this on your vagrant machine: vagrant share --ssh --ssh-no-password --http 8090, and vagrant connect --ssh remotely.

Hope that helps!

the vagrant user is basically a requirement for Vagrant base boxes. Its how the vagrant runtime interacts with the running VM/image (setting up the FS/mapping folders/running provisioners)

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/base.html

Are you sure you want to remove it? Vagrant boxes should only be used for development, so there shouldnt really be any security concerns.

when you do a bootstrap.sh it is an external script and you have to provision it; try $ vagrant provision and you will see all the output.. Please refer: https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/shell.html

... rtuniki

> It is simple to spawn a machine from a vagrant image, but is it possible to make your own image?

Possible. But I've personally found it more hassle than its worth. I usually just use a bare image and repackage my box from there. Although if you're working together with other developers or sysadmins then its probably a good idea to do so.

 

> how is the folder structure for multiple machines?

Let's say your .vagrant.d folder is located under D:\. So your path would be D:\.vagrant.d\.

D:.vagrant.d\

|Folder_for_multiple_boxes

>box1

>>Vagrantfile

>box2

>>Vagrantfile

|Vagrantfile *

 

*The last Vagrantfile (which has a filepath of D:.vagrant.d\Vagrantfile) is the main Vagrantfile that you can use to control multiple machines (also known in the docs as a multi-machine) in your Vagrant environment.

The other Vagrantfiles are for their respective boxes (box1 and box2) and usually don't require any editing. The main Vagrantfile is the one that you want.

 

> I assume vagrant machines in the same subnet can communicate, right? Or is there something that auto-sandboxes the machines?

If I understood you correctly then yes, they can communicate. You have to use a private network config in the Vagrantfile.

Please read the last section at https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/networking/public_network.html, it may assist with resolving your issue.

I'm not sure if you should have both a private_network and a public_network setting at the same time.

Host OS: Windows 10 Box: bento/ubuntu-16.04

Vagrantfile: https://codeshare.io/2BVV6b

I have the same box installed on my desktop (also Windows 10) but don't have any trouble accessing via SSH.

Steps I took to setup my box on both computers:

Install Virtual Box

Install Vagrant

Within a folder I setup for the project:

vagrant box add bento/ubuntu-16.04

vagrant init bento/ubuntu-16.04

Tweak the Vagrantfile for shared folder and memory allocation

vagrant up

vagrant ssh

Here is the output when I vagrant up: https://codeshare.io/aV33m9