Vagrant is an open source tool for building a complete virtual development environment. Very often, a test environment is required for testing the latest release and new tools. Also, it reduces the time spent in re-building your OS. By default, vagrant uses virtualbox for managing the Virtualization. Vagrant acts as the central configuration for managing/deploying multiple reproducible virtual environments with the same configuration.

Installing Virtualbox:

$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Installing Vagrant:

$ sudo apt-get install vagrant

Install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the Linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade.

$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms

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