Vagrant

Vagrant is a configuration system for virtual machines. It is geared towards creating virtual machines for developers, but it can be used for other purposes as well.

Vagrant supports several virtualization providers, and VirtualBox is a popular provider for developers.

First, some preparation. Install vagrant according to the instructions for your distribution. For Fedora, the command is this:

yum install 'vagrant*'

This will install a number of packages. However, as we are installing this on Fedora, we will experience some problems. The Fedora Vagrant packages use libvirt as a virtual machine provider rather than VirtualBox. That is useful in many cases, but in this case, we would like to use VirtualBox as a provider, which requires some extra steps on Fedora. If you use some other distribution, the case might be different.

First, add the VirtualBox repository to your Fedora installation. Then we can install VirtualBox with the dnf command, as follows:

dnf install VirtualBox...