Enhancement Request: Supporting network devices as guests in Vagrant

[briancain]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Because of how different network device file systems can be compared to a Linux guest, and how much of Vagrant relies on having bash easily available on the system for provisioning and other guest automation tasks, Vagrant currently cannot configure and provision network device guests beyond just bringing up or powering off the virtual machine. In some cases, Vagrant can't properly detect the network device guest with it's typical guest detection actions due to shell issues not executing properly^{1 2}

This enhancement should focus on writing a plugin or enhancement to Vagrant core that can support network device guests.

Describe the solution you'd like

Vagrant should be able to handle provisioning and other common file system operations on network devices like any other guest

Describe alternatives you've considered

N/A

Additional context

1: Related issue: #11762
2: An example of using NX-OS with Vagrant https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/open-nx-os-journey-1