Laura Davis-Robeson

PERFECT, thank you!

Thanks for reminding me about the shared folder option! I added this to the Vagrantfile so it automatically pulls in the .bashrc and .bash_profile and I can use the same files for multiple Vagrant boxes:

config.vm.synced_folder "/path_to_your_local_shared_directory", "/home/vagrant"

Now it's only 1 step. :)

If anyone else gets errors like this:
[Warning] Can't create test file /usr/local/var/mysql/whoami.lower-test
[ERROR] InnoDB: ./ibdata1 can't be opened in read-write mode
[ERROR] InnoDB: The system tablespace must be writable!
[ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
[ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
[ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
[ERROR] Aborting

Fix permissions using these 2 commands:
sudo chown -R whoami:staff /usr/local
sudo chmod u+rwX /usr/local

Then pick up with the instructions after brew install mysql.