The Goal
- Install and configure VirtualBox & Vagrant on your Windows dev box
- Download and start a Linux & Windows Vagrant Box.
Install
- VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
- Vagrant - http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads
- Download the .msi
- Right click and
Install as Administrator
Add a Vagrant Box
- Open a Command Prompt and
Run as Administrator
C:\Windows\system32\>vagrant box add centosPupLabs http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/centos-64-x64-vbox4210-nocm.box
What that does:
C:\Windows\system32\>vagrant box add boxName http://url.box
- Downloads the .box file to the Vagrant boxes directory
- nocm = No “configuration management” installed
- We will use a Vagrant plugin called Oscar to install and configure the PuppetMaster and Agent in a separate post.
Start the Vagrant Box
C:\stuff\vagrants\>vagrant init centosPupLabs
C:\stuff\vagrants\>vagrant up
C:\stuff\vagrants\>vagrant ssh
What that does:
- Tells Vagrant to write a VagrantConfig file in
C:\stuff\vagrants\ - Vagrant then boots the centosPupLabs VirtualBox machine
- SSH into the VM
- Must have Cygwin or Git installed
- You can also use PuTTY