Start VM on MAC

Start vagrant and install guest additions

  • There are issues with Virtual Box on a MAC, especially with copy/paste

  • We will start our virtual machine then install guest additions so you can

    copy and paste.

NOTICE

COPY will be (SHIFT CONTROL C)

PASTE will be (SHIFT CONTROL V)

VAGRANT

  • Open a terminal

  • Make sure you are in your $HOME directory and clone vagrant

    cd
    git clone https://github.com/marilynwaldman/vagrant.git
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  • Change directory to vagrant

    cd vagrant
    pwd
  • run

     vagrant plugin install vagrant-disksize
  • run vagrant up - this will run for a long time. Wait until you get a command line

    vagrant up

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  • You will see a terminal like this

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  • Go to APPS and double click on VirtualBox

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  • Shut the VM down

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Recycle vagrant

  • go to your terminal and stop vagrant

    vagrant halt
  • vagrant up

    vagrant up

Your vm will be restarted

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  • Password is 'vagrant'

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  • Remove message at top my clicking on the little 'x' on the top right hand side

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  • This is your user interface

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  • Click the little fish on the upper left hand side

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  • This is your terminal

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  • Click the red button on the upper left hand side to shut your VM off

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  • Shut Vagrant down

    vagrant halt
Marilyns-MacBook-Pro:vagrant marilynwaldman$ vagrant halt
==> default: Attempting graceful shutdown of VM...
Marilyns-MacBook-Pro:vagrant marilynwaldman$

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