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Installing Vagrant on Apple Silicon Macs (M1, M1X, etc)
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VirtualBox only supports the x86 platform, so the default installation instructions for Vagrant does not work on Apple silicon. Thankfully Vagrant has a VMWare Provider (more on providers here), and so if I can get VMWare running on my M1 MacBook, I should be able to run Vagrant as well!

These are my notes during figuring this out.

Get the VMWare Tech Preview released in September 2021!

We are in luck, as VMWare released this just a few weeks ago.

  • See their blog entry
  • register on their site to get an account
  • download and install

Installed VMWare provider

Setup basic Ubuntu image (failed)

vagrant init hashicorp/bionic64

$ vagrant up --provider vmware_desktop
Vagrant encountered an unexpected communications error with the
Vagrant VMware Utility driver. Please try to run the command
again. If this error persists, please contact support@hashicorp.com
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Try vagrant-qemu, a simple provider plugin using QEMU directly.

but it doesn't support multiple interfaces

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@fatso83 https://osxdaily.com/2022/10/22/you-can-now-run-virtualbox-on-apple-silicon-m1-m2/ you can download the dev version from the website, in my case I recently move to a M1 chip, I use this with vagrant all the time but I’m currently checking if this works

but it doesn't work with arm64 boxes

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