configuring-a-virtual-machine

To setup a virtual machine running a windows OS, We would be using vagrant and virtualbox.

Vagrant is an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software developement environments. We can use vagrant to build a box from scratch or use an existing box

Box is the package format for Vagrant environments. A box can be used by anyone on any platform that Vagrant supports to bring up an identical working environment.

Virtualbox is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 computers currently being developed by Oracle Corporation. Basically, virtualbox enables us to run more than one operating system at a time. For example, On my MacOS I could also run a windows OS.

Prerequisites

To follow along with this guide, we need to have vagrant and virtualbox installed on our system. If you don't have them installed, follow the steps below

Ensure you have homebrew installed on your system or click here for instruction on installing homebrew
To install vagrant, run the command below in your terminal
```
brew install cask vagrant
```
To install virtualbox, run the command below
```
brew install cask virtualbox
```

Procedure

After completing the prerequisites, follow the steps below to configure a virtual machine on your system.

Clone the repository below on github, run the command below to do that

git clone https://github.com/kensanni/configuring-a-virtual-machine.git

Move into configuring-a-virtual-machine directory
```
cd configuring-a-virtual-machine
```
To build the windows OS, run
```
vagrant up
```
This might takes some time, depending on your network connectivity since the size of the box is a little bit large.
run virtualbox to open the virtualbox UI and click on the show button to open your windows OS

When we run vagrant up, vagrant checks for a Vagrantfile. Vagrantfile is a configuration file for vagrant, here we specified an existing windows OS vagrant box.

Trobleshooting

If you are getting an error like the one below

This is most likely caused by a poor network connectivity. To fix this error, ensure you have a stable network and also prevent your system from going to sleep while vagrant up is still running.

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