Setting up IPython Notebook inside of Vagrant

Setup Python, IPython and ipython-sql

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install ipython-sql
sudo pip install --upgrade jinja2 tornado jsonschema pyzmq
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

# let's start ipython notebook
ipython notebook --ip=0.0.0.0 # port-forwarding doesn't work without this --ip flag
# IPython Notebook now accessible on http://localhost:8888/ on the host

Vagrant setup

vagrant add box hashibox/precise32
vagrant init

# Add config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8888, host: 8888 to Vagrantfile

vagrant up
vagrant ssh