See ' About VirtualBox' for an introduction. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. VM VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. Oracle today released a significant new version of Oracle Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Now you can use this new base box like any other Vagrant box.Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Please note I named output box as precise64Node as original base box is precise64 and I repackaged for Node specific uses. So for instance, if I am interested to repackage VM Node_default_1387087098 then I will run, vagrant package -base Node_default_1387087098 -output /myfolder/precise64Node.box

Once you have specific name for VM which you want to repackage, you can run vagrant package -base SPECIFIC_NAME_FOR_VM -output /yourfolder/OUTPUT_BOX_NAME.box For example following image illustrate two VM running under VirtualBox Node_default_1387087098 and Blogs_default_1386384681 If you are using VirtualBox as provider you can see a list of virtual machine with their specific machine. Also repackaging allows me to work offline as no provisioning is required.įirst step is to get id or specific name of VM from your Vagrant provider. Once install/update is finished, sometime I prefer to repackage updated virtual machine as a new base box to avoid repeating the install and update process. Then using either Puppet provisioner or apt-get I normally install/update required packages and libraries in my VM.

With help of a Vagrant provider vagrant up will create a virtual machine (VM) using specified base box. Typically my Vagrant workflow starts with a official base box provided by Ubuntu.

Vagrant box list