Using Vagrant on a Windows Host, Quickstart

On a fresh Windows host, install virtualbox, Hyper-V or VMware Desktop. We use virtualbox from Oracle for this example.

Get a vagrant box download started, I chose a centos6 build with puppet:

Open a command propmt, use the following commands from vagrantup.com:

vagrant box add {title} {url}

vagrant init {title}

vagrant up

You may select from http://www.vagrantbox.es/ or https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/vagrant/discover/jabreity/ for my boxes (Windows 11 is the only one available today).

Here we download our vagrant box:

Now we have downloaded our image, let’s initialize it, and boot it: