Summary: Setting up a Debian Vagrant box on Windows 10 with VirtualBox

In my three previous posts (Post 1, Post 2, Post 3), I detailed the steps involved in setting up a Debian Vagrant box on Windows 10.  It contains lots of explanations and screenshots; if you know what you’re doing, and you just want to see the steps, this is the post for you!

Install the vagrant-vbguest plugin, if you don’t have it installed already:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Create the Vagrantfile:

vagrant init debian/buster64

Update the Vagrantfile by adding the following lines to the appropriate locations:

config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "virtualbox"

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
  vb.gui = true
  vb.memory = "2048"
  vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--vram", "12"]
end

Start up the VM.  This will download the Vagrant box if required, then create the VM, start it up, and install the VirtualBox Guest Additions:

vagrant up

SSH in to the VM, update the software, and install the GUI software:

vagrant ssh
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo tasksel install xfce-desktop

Reboot the system, and maximize the GUI window after the system has booted:

logout
vagrant halt
vagrant up

Log in to the GUI (username vagrant, password vagrant).

And, you’re done!