[dba-Tech] Vagrant questions Was:Re[2]: Bad karma - a kind of punning, but not only - I have got an issue with nodejs' karma module while installing gulp...

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 Hans --

Yes, you're right, I have first time heard about Vagrant from you here  a day ago.

I have now got Vagrant installed on my MS Windows 8.1 PC and I have read Vagrant docs a bit but I cannot currently run though its "Getting started" tutorial as this tutorial requires to download a Vagrant Box which is "heavy"/pricey for my current mobile connection - I'll get back to my main broadband Internet connection during this weekend.

So currently I have just one question for you:

- On this web page -  https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/up.html  - it is written  "In less than a minute, this command will finish and you'll have a virtual machine running Ubuntu. You won't actually see anything though, since Vagrant runs the virtual machine without a UI."

Question: Does Vagrant actually *run* VirtualBox's VMs  images? - I have thought Vagrant just manages (some special way) VirtualBox VMs running within VirtualBox.

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Thursday, June  4, 2015 10:25 AM -07:00 from Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>:
>Shamil,
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>I'm not sure you understood my suggestion.
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>Vagrant is a tool that helps you create and maintain lightweight development environments. It creates Linux VirtualBox vms on your local machine (Windows, Mac, Linux whatever) with a local folder mounted to it, which means you can develop using Visual Studio or whatever. It makes no difference and doesn't force you to another environment.
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>This might make a lot more sense for you since node.js works a lot better in a Linux (and Mac) environment as 99% of node developers write and deploy code on Linux and Macs. You do not need to buy a new machine to get these benefits since it's all happening within a virtual machine.
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>As far as TypeScript is concerned, I don't have any experience with it, so I don't have any specific suggestions as to why it is unable to do something as simple as understand whether a semi-colon exists or not.
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>- Hans
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