This is the list of Vagrant configuration options and plugins which I found very useful. Also downstairs are the lists of tools, services and other interesting things :)

Config options

Provide default box url

config.vm.box_url = "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/937870/VMs/squeeze64.box"

This is used if the box doesn't already exist. When vagrant up is called and the box is not found, this option is used to download the box.

Use NFS for syncing folders

config.vm.synced_folder "~/Dropbox", "/Dropbox", :nfs => true

It's much faster. Read https://coderwall.com/p/uaohzg for more info.

Note Some people have reported problems with permissions. This may be due to duplicated records in /etc/exports (when you are using the same IP address across all of your boxes). So, please, give each of your boxes an unique IP address.

Forward your SSH keys into Vagrant box

config.ssh.forward_agent = true

I use this to deploy my apps from inside the box. Very useful!

Plugins

vagrant-vbguest

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

This plugin will automatically install (or just check that versions are the same) the host's VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest system.

vagrant-berkshelf

vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf

Berkshelf integration. Vagrant will automatically run it before any provisioning step.

vagrant-librarian-chef

vagrant plugin install vagrant-librarian-chef

Librarian-Chef integration. Vagrant will automatically run it before any provisioning step.

vagrant-omnibus

vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

Installs latest Chef-solo. (Thanks to @tralamazza)

vagrant-cachier

vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier

A Vagrant plugin that helps you reduce the amount of coffee you drink while waiting for boxes to be provisioned by sharing a common package cache among similiar VM instances. (Thanks to @juliendubreuil)

Providers

• AWS (EC2 and VPC)
• LXC

Tools

veewee

A tool for easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, and virtual machine images. (Thanks to @av-ast)

Services

Rove.io

Rove.io is a service that allows you to pregenerate typical Vagrant builds (Chef).

PuPHPet

A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for PHP Web development (Puppet).

Boxes lists

• http://www.vagrantbox.es/ General list
• https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/ Opscode boxes
• http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/ Boxes with Puppet

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Feel free to leave a comment if you have something to add.

# VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.16-86992.vbox-extpack

# VBoxManage list vms
"vagrant_1373795168" {e76864cc-ee28-46f3-86a6-7b684b299f3a}

# VBoxHeadless --startvm "vagrant_1373795168" -v on --vrdeproperty "TCP/Address"=192.168.0.231 --vrdeproperty "TCP/Ports"=3389 --vrdeproperty "VNCPassword"=somepass

vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws