Prerequisites

Shared Prerequisites

• Packer 1.2.3 or newer.
• Vagrant 2.1.1 or newer.
• You need to have the openssl and gpg command line tools installed.
• For macOS, install the cdrtools package to get the mkisofs tool.
• For Linux, install genisoimage.

NOTE: If you're using the Homebrew (and Homebrew Cask) package manager on macOS, you can install all of these with brew and brew cask.

Virtualization Software

You only need to install the virtualization software (and its dependencies) for the boxes you want to build. If you only care about VirtualBox, then only install the VirtualBox dependencies.

VirtualBox

• VirtualBox, for building the VirtualBox Vagrant box.
• vagrant-vbguest plug-in to keep VirtualBox tools up-to-date.

VMware for Desktop (Fusion or Workstation)

• VMware Fusion (macOS) for building the VMware Vagrant box.
• VMware Workstation (Windows/Linux) for building the VMware Vagrant box.
• Vagrant Provider for VMware plug-in to enable Vagrant to use VMware as a provider.

Parallels Desktop (macOS)

• Parallels Desktop, for building the Parallels Vagrant box.
• Parallels Virtualization SDK for Mac so that your Mac can talk to Parallels through Vagrant.
• vagrant-parallels plug-in to enable Vagrant to use Parallels as a provider.

Recommended Vagrant Plugins

• vagrant-cachier plug-in to enable caching of yum packages.
• vagrant-hostsupdater plug-in to automatically updated your hosts file.