Vagrant
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5recommend
3warn against
Dec 17, 2025first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use vagrant on a seperate machine in a seperate network.”
“Vagrant I used a lot early on in my career to learn Ruby on Rails in Windows. Thanks a lot for your work!”
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“https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant is still a thing.”
“Automating this setup is also somewhat easily possible with, e. G., Lima[0] or HashiCorp vagrant[1].”
“I think Vagrant might also be what you want.”
Caveats and dissent
“I replaced my vagrant usage with lima-vm due to the license change years ago”
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“they go the way of HashiCorp's Vagrant”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Vagrant is approaching EOL. No more "Docker for VMs" 3 mentions
- Running Claude Code dangerously (safely) 3 mentions
- Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files 3 mentions
- Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop 2 mentions
- Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning 2 mentions
- Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs 1 mention
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“starting them with Vagrant to provision the app on the system under test”
“Always looking for a successor to”
“I used Vagrant for many years and this was my evolution”
“I replaced my vagrant usage with lima-vm due to the license change years ago”
“the good old cli remains available, albeit under the non-free Business Source License”
“I use vagrant on a seperate machine in a seperate network.”
“Vagrant manages VMs and virtual networks, in Ruby.”
“Vagrant I used a lot early on in my career to learn Ruby on Rails in Windows. Thanks a lot for your work!”
“I also tried vagrant for vm with docker inside”
“sandboxed to specific projects using a tool like devbox, nix-devshell, docker or vagrant”
“has thankfully been avoided”
Yeah, very easy to do today. May VPS providers help with this, checkout: https://exe.dev https://sprites.dev https://shellbox.dev
“https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant is still a thing.”
“I have a Vagrant setup inspired by this blogpost”
Openclaw has been a gamechanger for me and my friends. I invited it to a groupchat and my friends are enjoying it a lot. It has analyzed the whole group conversation (nothing sensitive), built a personality for each individual user and noted down how everyone talks and what their interest are and their relationship to each other. It has also started to mimic the way we all speak, it barely feels like its an agent in
“I considered the idea of using a VM with Vagrant”
“I ended up creating a Vagrant plugin”
“I liked Vagrant back in the day”
“I used vagrant many years ago mostly successfully”
“Automating this setup is also somewhat easily possible with, e. G., Lima[0] or HashiCorp vagrant[1].”
“both are alternatives to Vagrant as well”
“I think Vagrant might also be what you want.”
“I've re-discovered Vagrant and have been using it exactly for this and it's surprisingly effective for my workflows.”
“they go the way of HashiCorp's Vagrant”