Installing Vagrant providers

Vagrant and VirtualBox are a great environment to get started with. However, there might be instances where the use of other desktop hypervisors would be preferred, such as the VMware Desktop products (Fusion and Desktop). Recent versions of Vagrant (1.1 or higher) support VMware as a commercial addition. The VMware Fusion provider was the first commercial product released by HashiCorp and was quickly followed by VMware Desktop support. You can find more information about Vagrant and VMWare support at http://www.vagrantup.com/vmware.

Many users (including myself) immediately found the VMware provider to be tremendously useful for its improved speed and stability of the VMware platform. In this recipe, we'll look at ...

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