hello

vagrant is a tool, that can use several providers (virtualbox, docker,
vmware, cloud, etc)

if there are not boxes available, and you use them already without vagrant,
why not create your own vagrant box ?


On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>
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