Docker in Practice, Second Edition

GUIs

When running vagrant up to start up a virtual machine, Vagrant reads the local file called Vagrantfile to determine the settings.

A useful setting that you can create or change within the section for your provider is the gui one:

v.gui = true

For example, if your provider is VirtualBox, a typical config section might look like this:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise64"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.memory = 1024
    v.cpus = 2
    v.gui = false
  end
end

You could change the v.gui line’s false setting to true (or add it if it isn’t already there) before running vagrant up to get a GUI for the running VM.

Tip

A provider within Vagrant is the name of the program that provides the VM environment. ...