Creating Vagrant Machines for Distribution of Software Environments

Contents:

• Creating Vagrant Machines for Distribution of Software Environments
• Problem setting
  • Contents of the Vagrant machine
  • Installing the necessary software for using Vagrant
    • VirtualBox
    • Vagrant
    • Cygwin (only on Windows)
• Creating the Vagrant machine
  • Choice of operating system type
  • Downloading a base box to create a complete Vagrant machine
  • Making an empty Vagrant machine
  • Installing packages in a complete Vagrant machine
    • Creating files
    • Installing files and packages
    • Enabling X11 graphics
    • Packaging a new box
  • Installing packages in an empty Vagrant machine
  • Scripts for installing ready-made packages
  • Setting up a default environment with .bashrc
• Operating the Vagrant machine
  • Operating a complete Vagrant machine
  • Operating an empty Vagrant machine
  • Working with an initialized Vagrant machine
  • Shared directories
  • Troubleshooting
    • Troubleshooting: shared directory is invisible (1)
    • Troubleshooting: “couldn’t connect to display ...” (1)
    • Troubleshooting: Internet is not reachable (1)
  • Stopping the Vagrant machine
  • Placing the Vagrant machine in the cloud
  • Using VMWare Fusion
  • Documentation of Vagrant
• Appendix: Condensed instructions for students
  • Troubleshooting: shared directory is invisible (2)
  • Troubleshooting: “couldn’t connect to display ...” (2)
  • Troubleshooting: Internet is not reachable (2)

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page