![]() When creating a new machine in VirtualBox in the wizard a lot of options are auto-configured so you may need to edit the machine after it is created, going into Settings, to change some options. The idea behind these choices is to create your base box as light on resources as possible with as much room for expansion later as possible. Disable any unnecessary hardware like audio.Again this is something users can override in their Vagrantfile, so try not to require a higher number to start with. ![]() I chose 2048MB, but 1024MB would do as well. Memory: Choose a lowish value here, reason being users that use the base box can always increase the memory in their Vagrantfile.The default max-size is pretty low (32GB!) and won’t be much use for anyone and the disk will max out pretty quickly. Disk Space: Choose a virtual hard disk (VDI) dynamically allocated and choose a high upper limit for the size.You want to follow most of the advice given in the Vagrant documentation regarding base boxes 1 Vagrant: Creating a Base Box ( ). Name it whatever you like, though keep it simple and make a mental note of it as you will need to type this name out later. Start virtual box and create a new Windows 10 virtual machine. Package and Export the box through Vagrant.Making a windows Vagrant box in VirtualBox is four steps: You will need a valid license key for the version of windows you are installing if you plan to continue using the machine. You will need to locate one or get an evaluation version. I got mine from MSDN as part of my subscription. You will need a Windows 10 ISO file or disc.You will need Vagrant, again get the latest version.You will need VirtualBox, get the latest version and the corresponding extension pack.Vagrants documentation tries to put you off creating your own base boxes, rightly so this is a time consuming process and ideally you would save a lot of time simply using a base box someone else has created. If you are a complete newbie to Vagrant, wondering what it does, this topic is likely too advanced and will not help you. I will reference the original articles where possible, so you can read them if you wish. Some of the information within those articles still applies to Windows 10 and I used the minimum required changes to get my base box working with Vagrant. There is plenty of information out there but it is scattered, some of it is old and no longer relevant and most of it is for Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012. I read several articles about creating Windows base boxes for Vagrant. So I decided to go ahead and create a base box for Vagrant for Windows 10 Professional. VirtualBox is already allowing Windows 10 virtual machines as of version 5.0 (though Windows 10 is not officially supported). Read the post to see the limitations as well as what combinations of of Windows XP through Windows 8.1 and IE 6–11 are available.I recently decided to create my own Windows 10 base box for Vagrant. ![]() If you aren’t familiar with Vagrant, Vagrant is a handy tool for your tool belt which is used to create and configure lightweight, reproducible and portable development environments. I’m pleased to be announcing a new way to leverage the Modern.ie VMs for your testing purposes - Vagrant. These images are available for users on a Mac, Linux or Windows machine by taking advantage of different virtualization technologies including Hyper-V, Parallels, Virtual Box and VMware Player/Fusion. One of the sites that helped make my environments simple was Modern.ie as they provided a series of Virtual Machine images with multiple versions of Windows with different versions of Internet Explorer installed. From Windows Boxes for Vagrant Courtesy of Modern.ie: My initial instinct was that this wouldn’t be possible, because of licensing and activation. Of course, if using a Linux image your provisioner should install a desktop environment like Gnome or KDE.įor more, see the Vagrant Documentation on Headless Mode and this Question on StackOverflow With it, the box will not launch in headless mode. Assuming you’re using Virtualbox, add the following line in your Vagrantfile to the block that configures Virtualbox settings. It turns out, of course, that this is possible. But there are cases where you want more than a terming, maybe for providing a standard desktop environment for a GUI tool. Now, Vagrant assumes you’re comfortable at the command line, and if you need to access the guest OS, it’s just a vagrant ssh away. Building with Virtual Development Environments from Oscar MeridaĪfterwards, I received a few questions-which means I need to update the slides-which led to some interesting research for answers.Ĭan you setup a VM through vagrant which allows GUI-based OS access
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