vagrant box utility will help you to manage the boxes on your local machine. You don’t need to find and delete the Vagrant boxes from directories. How to find the Vagrant boxes available on the local machine ? If you are not using those boxes, it is recommended to delete those boxes and save the space. If the box is not available, Vagrant will try to download the box from Vagrant cloud automatically. Every time when you execute a vagrant up (for a new virtual machine), Vagrant will check if the box is already available on the local machine. If you are using different Operating systems and virtual machines using Vagrant, there will be multiple Vagrant boxes downloaded on your local machine and indeed it will take a lot of space. In Vagrant Virtual Machine images are distributed as boxes (like VM templates in VMWare or images in public cloud) and will be fetched from the Vagrant Cloud.Īlso read : How to create an Ansible lab using Vagrant ? Why should I housekeep Vagrant Boxes ? You can create your local development (or test or production) virtual machine environment with a single vagrant up command. Vagrant is a great tool for creating your development infrastructure very quickly with an easy workflow.

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