Vagrant Images

This directory contains a few vagrant images which can be used to build and develop on the latest DyND. To get started, you'll first want to install Vagrant and VirtualBox.

These images work on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, and are an easy way to get a consistent, isolated environment for Blaze development and experimentation.

Starting a Vagrant Image

To provision and start one of these images, use the following commands:

$ cd saucy64-py33
$ vagrant up

To connect with ssh, use:

$ vagrant ssh

On Windows, PuTTY is a good way to ssh into these images. If you run vagrant ssh-config, you will see output similar to the following:

Host default
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2222
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile C:/Users/[name]/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

You can use the PuTTYgen tool to convert the IdentityFile private key from ssh format to the PuTTY .ppk format. Then create a PuTTY configuration using the settings and converted .ppk file.

Updating VirtualBox Guest Additions

You may find it useful to install the vagrant-vbguest plugin, which automatically keeps the VirtualBox guest additions up to date. When these are out of date, features such as access to the /vagrant folder may not work reliably. The command is:

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest