Is this mostly appropriate for web development? Could it work for embedded or de...

nl · on Dec 10, 2013

Is this mostly appropriate for web development? Could it work for embedded or desktop development?

No, it's very useful for desktop, and especially embedded development. It lets you have consistent images to test your code against.

Presumably this is also mostly used with Linux. How do people manage Windows licenses with Vagrant?

No, it's very popular on both Windows and OS-X. Virtualbox is most popular on both platforms (because it is free).

mbreese · on Dec 10, 2013

> it's very popular on both Windows and OS-X.

No, I think that they meant with Windows Guests (hence the license question).

I don't think that Vagrant is used much for coding Windows applications, but rather coding Linux (web) applications from Windows hosts.

I've never used it, but it looks like there is a way to use this for Windows Guests as well: http://www.thomasvjames.com/2013/09/create-a-windows-base-bo...

YMMV

suraj · on Dec 10, 2013

I am using Vagrant to develop a buildroot based embedded project. I had to use NFS for sharing because of hardlinks generated for buildroot. Other than that everything went smoothly.

With vagrant primary mode of interaction is through ssh (although it supports showing GUI on vagrant up). So I don't think it is a good fit for developing Windows or desktop applications.