I am by no means a systems admin, nor a networking expert, so what I’m
trying to do may be way off the mark, but let me try to describe my
situation…
My employer recently purchased a Vagrant VMWare provider license which I’m
successfully using with VMWare Workstation 10 on a Windows 7 host using
Puppet to provision my VMs. My base VM configuration uses an Ubuntu
Precise64 box with DHCP and port forwarding. The relevant parts of my
Vagrantfile are shown below.
## Configure VMWare Workstation as the provider of choice.
## System parameters like available memory and number of CPU cores go
here.
config.vm.provider "vmware_workstation" do |v|
v.vmx["memsize"] = "1024"
v.vmx["numvcpus"] = "2"
end
## Give our guest a name.
config.vm.host_name = "base.dg.dev"
## Every Vagrant virtual environment requires a box to build off of.
config.vm.box = "precise64_vmware"
config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box";
## Configure a public network adapter per DHCP.
config.vm.network "public_network", :bridge => 'en1: Prompt Me'
Ultimately *I would like to be able to address and remotely debug web apps
running on this guest VM (and other, similar guests) using the configured
vm.host_name, in this case “base.dg.dev”.* Given my limited knowledge of
networking, the only way I know of doing this currently is to edit my
windows “hosts” file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) and insert (or
update) a line like this:
192.168.1.58 base.dg.dev
In the example above the address of 192.168.1.58 is the *dynamic* value
assigned to base.dg.dev VM by my router.
While this solution seems to work nicely, I find myself making frequent
changes to the “hosts” file as my VMs move from one network environment to
another (I frequently work from home). So my question… *Is there a way to
have Vagrant modify my Windows “hosts” file automatically, or some other
technique that I’ve completely overlooked?*
Thanks for any assistance or advice you can provide. Take care.
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