Vagrant focuses on automation, lowering development environment setup time and increasing production parity. This guide will cover installation of Vagrant and VirtualBox on Fedora.
For KVM users, check: How to Use Vagrant with Libvirt on Linux
Vagrant depends on existing hypervisor to run and deploy Virtual Machines, this can be VirtualBox, KVM, or VMware. This guide covers the installation of VirtualBox before Vagrant on Fedora.
Check CPU Intel VT or AMD-V extensions
The first step is to confirm that your CPU has either Intel VT or AMD-V Virtualization extensions. In some systems, this is disabled on BIOS and you may need to enable it.
cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "vmx|svm"Add VirtualBox RPM repository
Add VirtualBox RPM repository to your Fedora using the following commands:
sudo dnf -y install wget
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
sudo mv virtualbox.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repoAfter adding the repository, install VirtualBox
sudo dnf install -y gcc binutils make glibc-devel patch libgomp glibc-headers kernel-headers kernel-devel-`uname -r` dkms
sudo dnf install VirtualBox-7.1Add your user account to the vboxusersgroup.
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers ${USER}Configure VirtualBox Drivers
$ sudo /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup
vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.Download Extension Pack:
cd ~/
VER=$(curl -s https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST.TXT)
wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/$VER/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-$VER.vbox-extpackYou can also download it manually https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Once the file is downloaded, install the extension pack by clicking on the Downloaded file.
Install Vagrant on Fedora
Vagrant is available on Fedora repositories, install it by running the following command on your terminal:
sudo dnf -y install vagrantTest Vagrant and Virtualbox Setup Fedora
The best way to perform a test is by installing a VM on the new VirtualBox. Follow any of our guides below to get started.
thank you for putting this together! it’s super useful and it got my machine going with Vagrant. The only thing I had to do different was the guest additions, since I’m running a headless server, I did it via command line as well with:
sudo VBoxManage extpack install
Thanks for the comment.
On “Step 3: Install Vagrant on Fedora”, it has 2 sudo (sudo sudo dnf -y install vagrant). Congrats for you work! 😉
Correct thanks for the comment. We’ve fixed the sudo double.
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