Vagrant really shines when it unlocks new capabilities, like running Linux applications from Windows! Now that Docker has supplanted Vagrant for Linux applications, I think Vagrant has room to grow for non-Linux guests. For example, BSD images cannot by run by Docker from Linux hosts. So there are gaps in a build bot sense that Vagrant is ideal for filling.
I’d like to use Vagrant to help setup build bots for several OS’s, so that C-style applications can be ported more automatedly for many kinds of users. However working FreeBSD, macOS / Darwin, and Windows boxes are hard to come by. Licensing aside, the boxes that are available are sometimes closed source (not even a Vagrantfile available), and other boxes fail to successfully vagrant up. I think if the Vagrant community were to promote these OS’s to first tier support, Vagrant would find higher use in CI setups, especially for systems languages! I’m looking for help getting the FreeBSD box working in macOS, for some reason the dang thing keeps bugging out :/ P.S., I may prefer *nix, but I am keen to support Mac and Windows users for my applications. Does anyone know if Apple and/or Microsoft publish or license a minimal development Vagrant box or some other VM format image? -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/a9409b12-e0a5-41d8-879c-5c59508d3b26%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
