Upgrade to Vagrant 0.9.x in hopes to work around Vagrant issue #516

Gemfile

@@ -1,15 +1,3 @@
 source :rubygems
 
-
-gem "vagrant", ">= 0.8.7"
-
-platform :jruby do
-  gem "jruby-openssl"
-end
-
-group :development do
-  platform :mri do
-    gem "rdiscount"
-  end
-  gem "yard", ">= 0.7.2"
-end
+gem "vagrant", "~> 0.9.0"

Vagrantfile.sample

@@ -7,12 +7,27 @@ Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
   # config.vm.box_url = "http://files.travis-ci.org/boxes/bases/oneiric32_base.box"
 
 
-  config.vm.forward_port 'ssh', 22, 2220
+  #
+  # For Vagrant 0.9.x
+  #
+
+  config.vm.forward_port 22, 2220
 
-  config.vm.customize do |vm|
-    vm.memory_size = 768
-    vm.cpu_count   = 2
-  end
+  config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
+  # partially helps with Vagrant issue #516, VirtualBox NAT interface chokes when
+  # # of slow outgoing connections is large (in dozens or more).
+  config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nictype1", "Am79C973"]
+
+  #
+  # For Vagrant 0.8.x
+  #
+
+  # config.vm.forward_port 'ssh', 22, 2220
+  #
+  # config.vm.customize do |vm|
+  #   vm.memory_size = 768
+  #   vm.cpu_count   = 2
+  # end
 
   config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
     # you can use multiple cookbook locations if necessary.