This happens automatically when you reference a new box in a Vagrantfile, but you might want to add a box from a non-standard repository. We can manually download a new box using the vagrant box add command. We can list available boxes we've already have downloaded using the vagrant box list command. You will only need to download this again if there is a newer version of the same box, or if you remove the box from your current list of available boxes. Once we reference it Vagrant will download it for us, and it will be added to the list of locally downloaded boxes. For the rest of this article we will assume you just want a basic Oracle Linux VM, so we will be using the 'bento/oracle-7.6' box. Lots of Vagrant boxes are available online, so you can search for something that looks interesting. They can be a bare-bones OS installation, or have a whole environment installed on them. Vagrant supports other virtualisation tools, but VirtualBox is the default provider, and it works on Linux, Windows and Mac, so it's very handy as I use all three. You need to install the following software. Why is it such a short article? Because Vagrant is simple and the Vagrant Documentation has all the details. This article gives a very brief introduction to Vagrant. Home » Articles » Vm » Here Vagrant : A Beginner's Guide

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