Thank you all for your kind responses. On Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:33:12 UTC+1, Jim McGinness wrote: > > I've used josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi with moderate success. There's an > obligate password interaction needed for a deploy that makes it more > awkward than some other providers, but it generally works the way it's > supposed to and I've tried it with something like a dozen different boxes > (Linux host, ESXI 6.7 target). Virtualbox is not designed for standalone > baremetal installation (so far as I know), so it's not a good comparison. > > If you want absolute highest performance, of course, you don't want any > layers of VM or hypervisor, but for ordinary work the performance losses > are usually small and acceptable. The strength of Vagrant is to be able to > do quick, repeatable installs of a particular VM environment and the > requirements on Vagrant boxes to work as Vagrant boxes mean a few > compromises on security and configuration. My understanding is that most > people use Vagrant as a way to bring up disposable test environments, not > as a way to deploy production machines (for which there are recommended, > better alternatives, such as Terraform, among others). > > (My server is much more modest than yours; it's a Dell R210-II with just > one quad processor and 16GB but as a home server, it works for my small > experiments and is quiet enough except when the fans go all out for a > minute or so every couple of months when a new cert is being deployed to > the iDRAC.) > > -- jmcg >
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