Software – oscarfoley

Software to install
- Ruby: http://rubyinstaller.org
- VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
- Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
- Git (for ssh client): https://git-scm.com/download/win (or Cygwin)
Vagrant Tutorial: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/project_setup.html
HashiCorp’s Atlas box catalog: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
Link to download manually a box: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/designerror/boxes/windows-7/versions/1.0/providers/virtualbox.box
Vagrant boxes cache folder: C:\Users\xxxx\.vagrant.d

Sample vagrantfile (it is better creating vagrantfile with vagrant init)

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
   config.vm.box = "designerror/windows-7"
   config.vm.synced_folder "../data", "/vagrant_data"
   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.gui = true
     vb.memory = "1024"
   end
   config.proxy.http     = "http://proxy:8080/"
   config.proxy.https    = "http://proxy:8080/"
   config.proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,127.0.0.1"
end

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

config.vm.box = "designerror/windows-7"

config.vm.synced_folder "../data", "/vagrant_data"

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

vb.gui = true

vb.memory = "1024"

end

config.proxy.http = "http://proxy:8080/"

config.proxy.https = "http://proxy:8080/"

config.proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,127.0.0.1"

end

Commands to spawn Linux:

PowerShell

vagrant init vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64 vagrant up vagrant ssh

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vagrant init
vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
Commands to spawn Windows 7:

PowerShell

vagrant init vagrant box add designerror/windows-7 vagrant up # RDP into it (Default password: vagrant)

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vagrant init
vagrant box add designerror/windows-7
vagrant up
# RDP into it (Default password: vagrant)

Useful commands:

vagrant global-status  # Show status of all VMs.
vagrant status         # Show status of given VM.
vagrant halt           # Clear shutdown.
vagrant suspend        # Like hibernate.
vagrant destroy        # Delete VM.
vagrant box list       # List available boxes (base images).

vagrant global-status # Show status of all VMs.

vagrant status # Show status of given VM.

vagrant halt # Clear shutdown.

vagrant suspend # Like hibernate.

vagrant destroy # Delete VM.

vagrant box list # List available boxes (base images).

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