MacOs: install and config Vagrant & VirtualBox using brew.

Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.

1) Update Brew

$ brew update              
Updated 2 taps (homebrew/core and homebrew/cask).
==> Updated Formulae
broot               newman              serverless          syncthing
==> Updated Casks
keyshot             pdfelement          pycharm             pycharm-ce

2) Install vagrant

$ brew cask install vagrant   
==> Downloading https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.2.7/vagrant_2.2.7_x86_6
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying SHA-256 checksum for Cask 'vagrant'.
==> Installing Cask vagrant
==> Running installer for vagrant; your password may be necessary.
==> Package installers may write to any location; options such as --appdir are i
Password:
installer: Package name is Vagrant
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install was successful.
🍺  vagrant was successfully installed!

3) Install vagrant-manager

$ brew cask install vagrant-manager
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/cask).
==> Updated Casks
alt-tab                                  segger-embedded-studio-for-arm

==> Downloading https://github.com/lanayotech/vagrant-manager/releases/download/
==> Downloading from https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying SHA-256 checksum for Cask 'vagrant-manager'.
==> Installing Cask vagrant-manager
==> Moving App 'Vagrant Manager.app' to '/Applications/Vagrant Manager.app'.
🍺  vagrant-manager was successfully installed!

4) Searches all known Casks for a partial or exact match $ brew search virtualbox

5) Displays information about the given Cask $ brew cask info virtualbox

6) Install the given cask - virtualbox $ brew cask install virtualbox

6.1) If return an error like the one below. This is a macOS issue because of secure kext loading in High Sierra.

Error: Failure while executing; 
...

Here's the output:
installer: Package name is Oracle VM VirtualBox

6.2) So, try this and will work:

$ brew cask reinstall --force virtualbox --verbose --debug

6.3) If you encounter another error like this Error: Kernel.exit during execution, go to Settings & Privacy in your configs in Mac, and allow Oracle Extension. And repeat step #6.2 see here, otherwise just pass.

7) Remove any older versions from the cellar $ brew cleanup

8) Now add the Vagrant box you want to use. See more infos about Boxes here I used Windows 10 with visual studio 2015 (see box here), you can use some version of Ubuntu (hashicorp/precise64)or any other, following the same path.

$ vagrant box add senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community

Make sure your internet does not go down during the process #8. This may return an error at the end of the download. Perform the procedure if an error occurs, on a stable connection and without using a proxy or vpn.

You can find more boxes at Vagrant Cloud. Now create a test directory and cd into the test directory. Then we'll initialize the vagrant machine.

$ vagrant init win-10-enterprise-vs2015community

Up And SSH

It is time to boot your first Vagrant environment. Now lets start the machine using the following command from your terminal:

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Box 'senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    default: Box Provider: virtualbox
    default: Box Version: 1.0.0
==> default: Loading metadata for box 'senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community'
    default: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community
==> default: Adding box 'senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community' (v1.0.0) for provider: virtualbox
    default: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/senglin/boxes/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community/versions/1.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box
==> default: Box download is resuming from prior download progress
    default: Download redirected to host: vagrantcloud-files-production.s3.amazonaws.com
==> default: Successfully added box 'senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community' (v1.0.0) for 'virtualbox'!
==> default: Importing base box 'senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community'...
==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> default: Checking if box 'senglin/win-10-enterprise-vs2015community' version '1.0.0' is up to date...
==> default: Setting the name of the VM: mirian_default_1586431978800_50181
Vagrant is currently configured to create VirtualBox synced folders with
the `SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate` option enabled. If the Vagrant
guest is not trusted, you may want to disable this option. For more
information on this option, please refer to the VirtualBox manual:

  https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sharedfolders

This option can be disabled globally with an environment variable:

  VAGRANT_DISABLE_VBOXSYMLINKCREATE=1

or on a per folder basis within the Vagrantfile:

  config.vm.synced_folder '/host/path', '/guest/path', SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate: false
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    default: Adapter 1: nat
==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 3389 (guest) => 3389 (host) (adapter 1)
    default: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1)
    default: 5985 (guest) => 55985 (host) (adapter 1)
    default: 5986 (guest) => 55986 (host) (adapter 1)
==> default: Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations...
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: WinRM address: 127.0.0.1:55985
    default: WinRM username: vagrant
    default: WinRM execution_time_limit: PT2H
    default: WinRM transport: negotiate
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
    default: The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of
    default: VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can
    default: prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see
    default: shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the
    default: virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on
    default: your host and reload your VM.
    default: 
    default: Guest Additions Version: 5.0.4
    default: VirtualBox Version: 6.1
==> default: Mounting shared folders...
    default: /vagrant => /Users/username

You can ssh into the machine now.

$ vagrant ssh

Halt the vagrant machine now.

$ vagrant halt

==> default: Attempting graceful shutdown of VM...
==> default: Forcing shutdown of VM...

Now go ahead and open up the VirtualBox application. You will see running when you use vagrand up and VirtualBox is letting us know that you box is running properly.