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Creating Boxes from Scratch

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By now, it should be completely clear to you that Vagrant boxes are preinstalled OSs stored in files with a *.box extension, and you can easily download and start them using Vagrant. To perform automated downloads and boots of VMs, you need to create a Vagrantfile containing a config.vm.box entry like the following and then run the command:

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Gajda, W. (2015). Creating Boxes from Scratch. In: Pro Vagrant. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0073-5_7

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