Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

What you need for this book

To use the recipes in this book, you will need:

• A development machine capable of running virtual machines with hypervisor software, such as VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org) or VMware desktop products (http://vmware.com). You would want to get started with the freely available VirtualBox product and later on purchase the plugin to support VMware desktop products. Keep in mind that you will need a machine that is capable of running both your host operating system and also the guest operating systems that you will be creating with Vagrant. You will also want to ensure that you have enough storage (disk space) for virtual machine files. The disks created by Vagrant machines will typically be approximately the size required ...