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Download Vagrant For MAC For this tutorial, I have downloaded the installation file named vagrant1.8.1.dmg. Installation will be done, by simply clicking on the dmg file downloaded.

Using vagrant, you can define all aspects of your development environment, which can then be used for creating virtual machines.

Vagrant takes care of creating, managing, and destroying your development environment.

The most popular virtualization platform of choice for vagrant is VirtualBox.

Vagrant Mac OS X

In this article, we we will be walking throught the steps to install Vagrant on Mac OS X(Am using EI Captain 10.11.4 for this example).

If you are completely new to Vagrant then i recommend reading the below article to get some basics.

Read: What is Vagrant and what is it used for Installing Vagrant in MAC OS X is pretty simple.

This is because, both the virtualization component and the vagrant itself can be installed by using standard installers officially provided.

The virtualization platform best suited for vagrant is VirtualBox.

Prior to Vagrant 1.1, Vagrant was tightly integrated and was tied to VirtualBox.

Today Vagrant can work with almost any type of virtualization layer.

We will be using the virtualization layer provided by VirtualBox in this tutorial.

This is because, VirtualBox is free, and is available for all operating system platforms(ie: Mac, Windows, Linux.).

VirtualBox and Vagrant should be installed seperately.

If you install Vagrant without having VirtualBox installed, Vagrant will show you an error and will demand to install VirtualBox.

Other than VirtualBox, you do not need any other dependency to install Vagrant on Mac OS X.

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VirtualBox is a free Virtualization software offered by Oracle.

You can download VirtualBox for Mac OS X from the below Link.

Download VirtualBox Vagrant is compatible with VirtualBox versions 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 5.0.x.

For this article, I have downloaded VirtualBox-5.0.20-106931-OSX.dmg from the above link.

Installing VirtualBox on mac is similar to how you install any other dmg file.

Click on the dmg file and it should walk you through the installation.

Step 1: The very first step is to simply double click on the VirtualBox dmg file, which will open the below window in mac.

Step 2: Clicking on the above icon will kickstart the installation procedure, and will take you to the below window.

Step 3: Clicking on the continue button shown above will copy the required system files for VirtualBox, and finishes the installation.

If everything went well, It should show you the below final message.

Similar to VirtualBox, Vagrant can be downloaded from the below official URL.

Download Vagrant For MAC For this tutorial, I have downloaded the installation file named vagrant1.8.1.dmg.

Installation will be done, by simply clicking on the dmg file downloaded.

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