Extending the VMware VM capabilities
The hardware specifications of the Vagrant box vary from image to image as they're specified at the creation time. However, it's not fixed forever: it's just the default behavior. You can set the requirements right in the Vagrantfile, so you can keep a daily small Vagrant box and on-demand.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need the following:
- A working Vagrant installation
- A working VMware Workstation (PC) or Fusion (Mac) installation
- A working Vagrant VMware plugin installation
- An internet connection
- The Vagrantfile from the previous recipe using a bento/centos72 box
How to do it…
The VMware provider can be configured inside the following configuration blocks:
# VMware Fusion configuration config.vm.provider ...
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