Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Packaging Vagrant boxes from ISO files

Packaging Vagrant environments for others is a very common problem. Packaging an environment can start from creating a simple base box with an operating system installed to repurposing existing virtual machines for use as Vagrant boxes. In either case, Vagrant can be a solution to the problem of sharing virtual machines with other team members.

In this example, we will create a Vagrant box from a machine (CentOS) created with VMware Fusion. The same method will apply to VMware Workstation (Windows and Linux) with similar steps required for VirtualBox.

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This recipe requires the use of the commercial VMware Fusion provider. For more information on this provider, see the provider homepage at https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware ...