Vagrant Tips and Tricks

I heard about Vagrant in 2013. I am playing with Vagrant  about a year. It is really an awesome tool. It totally changed the way of my development. From the beginning I faced some problem and solved it by goggling. Today I would like to summarize the common problem and how I got rid of them.

Change Vagrant Box Name:

  
    config.vm.define "nurrony-devbox" do |devbox|
    end

Change Provider Box Name:

  
    config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
      vb.name = "devbox"
    end

Change Hostname of Vagrant box:  

  
config.vm.hostname = "YourBoxHostname"

Or

  config.vm.define "nurrony-devbox" do |devbox|
    devbox.vm.hostname = "devbox"
  end

The above configuration also change the name of Vagrant box from default to nurrony-devbox

Packaging a Vagrantbox

vagrant package --base SPECIFIC_NAME_FOR_VM --output /yourfolder/OUTPUT_BOX_NAME.box

Private Networking

config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"

Or with specific IP

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.10.236"

Disabling Auto config

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.50.4", auto_config: false

Public Networking

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  #DHCP
  config.vm.network "public_network"
  #STATIC
  config.vm.network "public_network", ip: "192.168.10.236"
  #Defining Default Network interface
  config.vm.network "public_network", bridge: 'wlan0'
end

Resolve Vagrant Box Slow Internet

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
  end