Getting Vagrant with libvirt support on your Fedora 20
I was recently asked to package Vagrant for Fedora with libvirt support (coming with the vagrant-libvirt plugin) and this post will let you know how to install it on your machine from the new Copr...
View Articlelibvirt Vagrant boxes with vagrant-mutate
Today I will like to put some light on using the vagrant-mutate plugin for Vagrant to convert (especially) VirtualBox images to libvirt. Why? Because if you start looking for an interesting box on the...
View ArticleGetting Vagrant with libvirt support on Fedora 21
Some time ago we finished most of the work for Vagrant Fedora 22 feature. The Vagrant package is currently in the review process, but I maintain Copr repositories for both Fedora 21 and rawhide. Here...
View ArticleVagrant NFS exports on Fedora 21
If you are using Vagrant chances are you would like to use NFS instead of rsync to speed up shared folders and avoid annoying vagrant rsync-auto command. But what to do when Vagrant just hang on...
View ArticleCreating default configuration for every Vagrant project
Are you tired of putting the same sane configuration options to every Vagrantfile? Here is how to make the life with Vagrant a little easier. Vagranfile holds the project configuration, but did you...
View ArticleInception: running Vagrant inside Vagrant with KVM
Since I package and maintain Vagrant and vagrant-libvirt for Fedora, I have a need to test new builds. But since I run just one version of Fedora and I don’t really feel like testing it directly on my...
View ArticleVagrant assistant for your DevAssistant
You have probably heard about Vagrant coming to Fedora and might have heard about DevAssistant too. DevAssistant can make your development easier by setting up your project’s basic structure,...
View ArticleRunning Vagrant with Docker provider without password prompts on Fedora
When you run Vagrant with Docker provider you find out that you need to prepend every command with sudo since that’s what would you do with running Docker commands directly. But chances are you don’t...
View ArticleFast and painless NFS for your Vagrant environment
If you are using NFS with Vagrant you are probably tired of password prompts. But a few modifications to /etc/sudoers file can help you! To edit /etc/sudoers file always use visudo. This way you won’t...
View ArticleUse your RHEL Vagrant boxes as any other with vagrant-registration
vagrant-registration plugin for Vagrant allows developers to easily register their guests for updates on systems with a subscription model like Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here is how to install the...
View ArticleWriting a general multi-provider Vagrantfile
Vagrant is a great software that allows people to use various providers, provisioners, sync options, and more. But that often comes short if we write our project’s Vagrantfile just for default...
View ArticleDebugging Vagrant with pry-byebug
What to do when running Vagrant with --debug flag is not enough? As Vagrant is nothing else than a Ruby program, you can use famous pry gem together with pry-byebug to debug it. The only thing you need...
View ArticleDNS for your Vagrant needs: with Landrush, libvirt and dnsmasq
Have you ever needed a DNS server that would be visible both on your host and your Vagrant guests? Landrush is one of those things that can pretty much save you. Unfortunately it was designed around...
View ArticleResolving VirtualBox-based Vagrant boxes IP collisions
How to solve collisions of VirtualBox with virtual bridges on Fedora (e.g. when running Vagrant). The problem occurs when trying to start VirtualBox-based Vagrant box due to IP collision with such a...
View ArticleWhat to do if Vagrant machine becomes unresponsive (KVM)
If you are using Vagrant with KVM (with vagrant-libvirt plugin) on Fedora, you might have experienced that sometimes the KVM virtual machine becomes unresponsive. Simply put you would wait forever for...
View ArticleRunning wkhtmltopdf in Vagrant (without X server)
Chances are you might need to run wkhtmltopdf on your server or in Vagrant environment (e.g. to overcome compatibility issue such as Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50700) with this...
View ArticleFirefox needs some more RAM to run your Rails system tests
A quick fix for an annoying (and not very descriptive) error Browsing context has been discarded when setting up Ruby on Rails system tests with Firefox headless. Here is how that might look like:...
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