Parallels Vagrant provider

Guys:

Does Parallels have any plans to add a Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/). A VMWare provider is available (http://www.vagrantup.com/vmware) ...

I really don't want to use VMWare, but don't see n e other options.

Omair

 

+1. Vagrant has become a standard tool in Web Development. It allows us to build virtual machine images (e.g. running Linux, Windows or whatever in a VM on your host machine). It currently supports VirtualBox and VMWare. VirtualBox has its issues (slow, kernel panics, etc.) and this is forcing many of us to buy VMWare. Vagrant has a plug-in architecture. What are Paraellel's plans to support it?

 

Yeah this needs to be added if possible, I currently cannot use both my parallels vms and have vagrant up due to conflict.

I did find this plugin on github, though I don't know much about it...
https://github.com/yshahin/vagrant-parallels

 

I'm also interested in a vagrant plugin for Parallels. I don't like the instability of virtualbox, and for now the unique alternative is switching to VMware, but it would be great if it could be done with parallels.

 

The develop branch of https://github.com/yshahin/vagrant-parallels has more up-to-date code on it. (https://github.com/yshahin/vagrant-parallels/tree/develop)

Issue #1 in the project's issue queue has some conversation, and a Parallels developer is assisting.

I think this will come along pretty soon. I was planning on developing my own, but now I'm going to wait and help test this one.

 

Watching this with enthusiasm!
Parallels has been, in my experience, the best performing and better-supported VM solution for Macs.
Just recently learned about Vagrant but it sounds amazingly useful and having a good Parallels solution would be a big plus. Can't imagine it wouldn't help firm up the user base, too.

DK

 

Hey DK,

A pretty good version of the plugin is now available via

HTML:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-parallels

Development has moved to feature branches and and the regular master branch. Should you have a project where you're using Vagrant, try it out! I also got support for Parallels Desktop into Veewee, so you can build your own from scratch. It works very well.

 

We tried this out and it is basically functional. Need to be able to set the local IP address within vagrant/puppet though before it's useable for us even at the preliminary stage.

Also noticed that there was an issue of having to add in all the VMs in the VM list otherwise it errors. Fine if this is your only VM or it's not shared with other people, but that's not our setup.

 

Can you file issues or comment on existing ones? Issue list: https://github.com/yshahin/vagrant-parallels/issues

The IP thing we're tracking already. The other thing I don't quite follow, but if you explain your process it's something we've probably run into, or it might be a version-specific thing we haven't solved yet.

 

I don't see an open issue for the IP address in that list of issues, did I miss something?

For the VM list issue, I have more details. It is an error that shows up when you have a VM not available in your list of VMs in Parallels, like if I had a VM on a USB drive and the drive was removed, it would still be in the list of VMs, only Parallels cannot find it. This causes an error.

 

It's this one: https://github.com/yshahin/vagrant-parallels/issues/5

Open an issue about what you are experiencing there. Then the whole team (including @legal90, who *works* for Parallels ) can see it and respond to you. They don't necessarily monitor this forum thread.

 

Now we have a separated forum branch for discussions about Vagrant Parallels Provider:
http://forum.parallels.com/forumdisplay.php?737-Parallels-Provider-for-Vagrant