Tag: virtualization

Now that we have learned the basics of how to work with Vagrant, let’s now go a little further into working with the fundamentals in Vagrant. In this vagrant tutorial, we’re going to create a new development environment using the precise32 box as we have done already. This time, however, we are going to add some shell provisioning to the Vagrantfile in order to automatically install the NGINX web server on our new virtual machine.…

With Vagrant now installed, let’s have a look at getting started with Vagrant. In this article, we’ll have a look at several topics. First off, we’ll explore the concept of Synced Folders and how Vagrant sets up file sharing between the host and guest OS. Then we’ll move on to working with a few different commands in Vagrant. We will look at vagrant suspend, vagrant resume, vagrant status, vagrant halt, vagrant up, and a few others.…

This is going to be a fun tutorial in setting up Vagrant on Ubuntu Linux. Vagrant is the excellent software by HashiCorp, created by Mitchell Hashimoto. It’s purpose is to make development environments easy. Vagrant enables the software developer, devops engineer, or system administrator to create lightweight and fully reproducible software environments in virtual machines. In this vagrant virtualbox tutorial, we’ll work on an Ubuntu Desktop Virtual Machine and install Virtualbox as well as Vagrant on this VM.…

When you go through the work of getting a virtual machine configured and running to your liking, it might be a good idea to take a snapshot of your newly created VM in its pristine state. This is helpful since when you start breaking shit installing more software, you always want to have a clean slate you can revert back to. Recall how we got our Ubuntu Desktop up and running in VMWare in addition to getting VMware Tools installed.…

Now that we’ve talked about how awesome VMware Workstation is, let’s build our first virtual machine using an ISO file. First, we need an ISO file to work with, and for this, we can go right to the official Ubuntu website to get what we need. Once we get our file, we will cover all of the steps needed to run a fully virtualized version of the Ubuntu Desktop 64 Bit operating system in VMware.…

VMware Workstation is the wildly popular software that facilitates creating and operating virtual machines or VM’s right on your x86 based laptop or desktop computer. At the time of this writing, VMware Workstation is now up to version 12 and it is very common to find it installed on the laptops of Information Technology Pros, Software Developers, Web Developers, or just plain technology enthusiasts. VMware Workstation is the original, and best, virtualization solution allowing you to run all kinds of different operating systems on a single host computer.…