Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Using existing virtual machines with Vagrant

Using Vagrant to create new environments for use up to this point has been pretty simple so far. In the previous recipes, we have downloaded existing Vagrant boxes, created new Vagrantfiles, and booted entirely new environments. This is a pretty suitable use for new software (or configuration) projects, or to possibly create environments in order to migrate existing projects. This isn't such a good workflow if your team or you have existing virtual environments in use (such as the virtual machine on a network share or a flash drive that is passed around between team members).

Fortunately, we can repackage existing environments to use with Vagrant, replacing the shared disk with a new box file. While ...