Tested against

(^) Packer is required to build the custom Ubuntu image.

Installation

cp packer/template.json.example packer/template.json

Note: packer/template.json.example is based on Packer 0.7.1.

Copy Vagrantfile.example as Vagrantfile or create your own.
Configure and uncomment recipes that you want to cook.
Optionally create your own recipes and place in the cookbooks/custom directory

rake virtualbox:install
rake vmware:install

  vagrant up      # starts vagrant
  vagrant ssh     # SSH into vagrant
  vagrant reload  # restarts vagrant
  vagrant halt    # stops vagrant

If your vm cannot connect to the internet (this typically happens when you switch from one network to another on a VirtualBox vm), run this command:

sudo dhclient

If you're coming from 1.0.x version of Vagrant, gem uninstall vagrant to avoid conflicts with the newer binary package based Vagrant.
You received the message: "Error creating VM: VBoxManage error: VBoxManage: error: Machine settings file <path_to_vbox> already exists". Installation was left in a bad state. Open VirtualBox, stop and remove the existing VM. Delete this vbox in your VirtualBox directory and re-run the command that failed.
On VMware, if HGFS kernel module could not be found, you'll need to re-install VMwareTools.