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

Screenshot

• 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

  
• You will see a terminal like this

  
• Go to APPS and double click on VirtualBox

  
• Shut the VM down

  

  

Recycle vagrant

• go to your terminal and stop vagrant

    vagrant halt

• vagrant up

  vagrant up

Your vm will be restarted

Screenshot

• Password is 'vagrant'

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

  
• This is your user interface

  
• Click the little fish on the upper left hand side

  
• This is your terminal

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

  
• Shut Vagrant down

  vagrant halt

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