USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX INSTALL

Feel free to install VMware Tools if you need them.ДЇollow the steps in one of the following two sections, Manual Installation or Kickstart Profile Installation. So far, I have not found a need for them. Take note, no where in the following steps do I install VMware Tools. I will be providing steps to install the operating system manually and using a Kickstart Profile. You can install the operating system manually or using a Kickstart Profile.

Start up the virtual machine and begin installation.

Under Isolation, uncheck Enable Drag and Drop and Enable Copy and Paste.

Under Compatibility, expand Advanced options, change the Use Hardware Version to 9, uncheck Allow upgrading the virtual hardware for this virtual machine, and click Apply.

Under Printer, click Remove Printer Port, and click Remove.

Under USB & Bluetooth, expand Advanced USB options, click Remove USB Controller, and click Remove.

Under Sound Card, click Remove Sound Card.

Under CD/DVD, expand Advanced options, and change the Bus type to IDE.

Under Hard Disk (SCSI), set the Disk size to 40.00 GB, expand Advanced options and uncheck Split into 2 GB files, then click Apply.

Under Network Adapter, make sure Share with my Mac is selected.

Under Display, turn Accelerate 3D Graphics Off.

Under Processors & Memory, set Processors to 1, Memory to 512 (Vagrant can change these values later), expand Advanced options and check Enable hypervisor applications in this virtual machine.

Under Sharing, turn Shared Folders Off.

Save your virtual machine with what name you like, I chose centos-6.5-x86_64.vmwarevm, and click Save.

Uncheck Easy Install and click Continue.

Choose the downloaded CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso, click Open, and click Continue.

Click Install from disc or image and click Continue.

They may differ if you are using VMware Fusion 5. The following steps were written for VMware Fusion 6. An error message will be thrown if there is something wrong. Verify everything is working by running any of the Vagrant commands.

USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX LICENSE

License the provider with the following command (save the license in a safe place, Vagrant will copy the license to itвЂ™s own directory as well): vagrant plugin license vagrant-vmware-fusion ~/Downloads/license.lic HashiCorp should have emailed you the Vagrant VMware Fusion Provider License by now. Once Vagrant is installed, open the Terminal application and download and install the Vagrant VMware Fusion Provider plugin: vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-fusion This provider license is what allows Vagrant to talk to VMware Fusion. In addition, you will need to purchase the Vagrant VMware Provider License from HashiCorp, the creators of Vagrant, for $79.00 here. Next, download and install the latest version of Vagrant for OS X. Install Vagrant and the Vagrant VMware Provider License

USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX TRIAL

Install VMware Fusion 5 or 6Д«efore you begin, you will need to download and install a licensed copy of VMware Fusion 5 or 6 which costs $59.99 (there is a 30 day free trial available).

USING VAGRANT WITH VMWARE VS VIRTUALBOX HOW TO

If you prefer VirtualBox to VMware Fusion, read how to create a CentOS 6.5 Vagrant Base Box from scratch using VirtualBox. This post will walk you through creating a CentOS 6.5 Vagrant Base Box from scratch using VMware Fusion 5 or 6. However, I prefer to know exactly how my virtual machine image is created. There are many Vagrant Boxes available to use immediately after downloading and installing Vagrant. Vagrant makes it super easy to spin-up local virtual machines using VirtualBox or VMware Fusion.

Using vagrant with vmware vs virtualbox