This directory contains definitions for virtual machines (as Vagrant templates, aka boxes) for most of the platforms supported by Ciao. Use the images as base for development, testing, or deployment environments for Ciao.

Vagrant is a a higher-level wrapper around virtualization software such as VirtualBox, VMware, KVM and Linux Containers (LXC), and around configuration management software such as Ansible, Chef, Salt and Puppet) (see wikipedia for more details)

• Install Vagrant (and VirtualBox).
• Check in VirtualBox/Preferences... that VMs are stored in a partition with enough space (typical Unix-based OSes may need 1-4GB, Windows around 20GB).
• Change directory to the desired image.
• Do vagrant init (only if no Vagrantfile config file present) and vagrant up.
• Login using vagrant ssh or click on running VirtualBox instance.
• Other useful commands:
  • vagrant reload --provision
  • vagrant suspend
  • vagrant resume
  • vagrant destroy - to delete the virtual machine

You may also use the boxes.pl Ciao script.

These templates are based on pre-installed images created by the Vagrant community and available from:

• http://www.vagrantbox.es/
• https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search