vagrant ..virtualbox and variety!

I recently got an opportunity to explore vagrant!
Its really cool .. (specially when you don't want users to know about the zillion steps+tools needed before your project is all set to run :))

check it out here :-
http://www.vagrantup.com/

For windows it was not much trouble .. just download the installation package and restart and voila!

But on Ubuntu i ran into some issues vagrant virtualbox versions e.t.c



Number of links on net did not work for me.
Finally this is what worked for me.

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove vagrant
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove virtulabox
sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev virtualbox-dkms
if you see

WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. then do 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms

sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox

 if needed 


dpkg -l | grep virtualbox
wget http://files.vagrantup.com/packages/a40522f5fabccb9ddabad03d836e120ff5d14093/vagrant_1.3.5_x86_64.deb
dpkg -i vagrant_1.3.5_x86_64.deb

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

 
if you already have some vagrant installed remove it as said above since it will conflict if you did remove it and you see seomthing like
-is-not-co-installable-with-errors  on-ubuntu
 is not co-installable with vagrant:i386 1.2.4
sudo dpkg -r vagrant:i386 1.2.4

dpkg -i vagrant_1.3.5_x86_64.deb
 

...hopefully now you are all set to run "vagrant up"  where your Vagrantfile is . 

If you face this :- 
 the machine is already locked by a session  then kill the process

ps ax | grep -i virtualbox

  or 

VBoxManage controlvm "vagrant_buzz_1403293185" poweroff

of If you have a vm that you want to start

vboxmanage startvm "vagrant_buzz_1403293185" --type headless

if not headless then :- 
vboxmanage startvm "vagrant_buzz_1403293185" 


to see what vms are present

vboxmanage list vms


If you want to see the details or vagrant up then do

VAGRANT_LOG=DEBUG vagrant up

If you want to seewhats going on in the vm
 vagrant ssh




BTW

Could not find Git in your PATH environment

if you see error related to not seeing git in your path then this might solve it   :-
 set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin



to remove trace of the vm you ever setup just do
 vagrant destroy