I have also now gotten MediaWiki-Vagrant working directly on the Parallels
provider:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/198280/

The stock Ubuntu box for Parallels doesn't include Puppet, but there's a
Vagrant plugin for installing puppet which seems to work fine. (Didn't have
luck with the puphpet-based box, something awry with the init/upstart
scripts.)

-- brion

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:06 AM, S Page <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > vagrant with the lxc provider inside Ubuntu 14.10 in a Parallels VM
> ...has
> > the plus that you can use a stock VM if you're going to run Linux anyway.
>
>
> But MediaWiki-Vagrant uses a "stock VM". Its Vagrantfile loads a
> trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box which contains a vmdk that
> as far as I know is much like other Ubuntu VMs.
>
>
> > This is a plus for me as I use VMs for a lot of testing and
> > prefer Parallels for its much better/faster graphics support.
> >
>
> Did you try Parallels instead of VirtualBox? "The Parallels provider for
> Vagrant is a plugin officially supported by Parallels. The plugin allows
> Vagrant to power Parallels Desktop for Mac based virtual machines"
> http://parallels.github.io/vagrant-parallels/
>
> LXC on a Linux host should be faster than Vagrant VM, but it's hard to see
> how running Vagrant as an LXC in a VM on a Mac can be faster than running
> Vagrant as its own VM. 8-)
>
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