VirtualBox & Vagrant Install

bogotobogo.com site search:

VirtualBox install

We will use Vagrant with VirtualBox, since it is free, available on every major platform, and built-in to Vagrant. Also, note that Vagrant can work with many other providers.

The VirtualBox package will be installed on an existing host OS (e.g. Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 7, Windows 8) as an application. This VirtualBox application allows additional Guest OS, to load and run, each with its own virtual environment.

As mentioned already we will be using VirtualBox as our provider for this tutorial, please install that as well.

Add the package to our /etc/apt/sources.list:

$ echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list

We need to have the Oracle public key for apt-secure:

$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

To install VirtualBox, do

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Ubuntu/Debian users might want to install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade.

$ sudo apt-get install dkms

To view the current VirtualBox version we should use below command:

$ vboxmanage --version
5.0.32_Ubuntur112930

Vagrant install

Get the appropriate installer or package from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html:

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.9.1/vagrant_1.9.1_x86_64.deb

Once the package is downloaded, the next step is installing it, making sure we have the right package name:

$ sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.9.1_x86_64.deb

$ vagrant -v
Vagrant 1.9.1

This will put vagrant to our system path so that it is available in terminals.

$ which vagrant
/usr/bin/vagrant

Just issue vagrant:

$ vagrant
Usage: vagrant [options]  []

    -v, --version                    Print the version and exit.
    -h, --help                       Print this help.

Common commands:
     box             manages boxes: installation, removal, etc.
     connect         connect to a remotely shared Vagrant environment
     destroy         stops and deletes all traces of the vagrant machine
     global-status   outputs status Vagrant environments for this user
     halt            stops the vagrant machine
     help            shows the help for a subcommand
     init            initializes a new Vagrant environment by creating a Vagrantfile
     login           log in to HashiCorp's Atlas
     package         packages a running vagrant environment into a box
     plugin          manages plugins: install, uninstall, update, etc.
     provision       provisions the vagrant machine
     push            deploys code in this environment to a configured destination
     rdp             connects to machine via RDP
     reload          restarts vagrant machine, loads new Vagrantfile configuration
     resume          resume a suspended vagrant machine
     share           share your Vagrant environment with anyone in the world
     ssh             connects to machine via SSH
     ssh-config      outputs OpenSSH valid configuration to connect to the machine
     status          outputs status of the vagrant machine
     suspend         suspends the machine
     up              starts and provisions the vagrant environment
     version         prints current and latest Vagrant version

For help on any individual command run `vagrant COMMAND -h`

Additional subcommands are available, but are either more advanced
or not commonly used. To see all subcommands, run the command
`vagrant list-commands`.

Now, we installed virtualbox and vagrant. Let's move on, and see how to use vagrant in subsequent chapters.