I made this because I don't like VirtualBox and I wanted to use vagrant with VMWare Fusion but was too cheap to buy the Vagrant plugin.
https://blog.kchung.co/mech-vagrant-with-vmware-integration-for-free/
Usage is pretty straightforward:
Usage: mech [options] <command> [<args>...]
Options:
-v, --version Print the version and exit.
-h, --help Print this help.
--debug Show debug messages.
Common commands:
init initializes a new mech environment by creating a mechfile
destroy stops and deletes all traces of the mech machine
(up|start) starts and provisions the mech environment
(down|stop|halt) stops the mech machine
suspend suspends the machine
pause pauses the mech machine
ssh connects to machine via SSH
scp copies files to and from the machine via SCP
ip outputs ip of the mech machine
box manages boxes: installation, removal, etc.
(status|ps) outputs status mech environments for this user
provision provisions the mech machine
reload restarts mech machine, loads new mechfile configuration
resume resume a paused/suspended mech machine
snapshot manages snapshots: saving, restoring, etc.
port displays information about guest port mappings
push deploys code in this environment to a configured destination
For help on any individual command run `mech <command> -h`
Example:
Initialize and use a FreeBSD instance with a machine from HashiCorp's Vagrant Cloud:
mech init freebsd/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE
mech up
mech ssh
Initialize and use an Ubuntu instance with a machine from HashiCorp's Vagrant Cloud:
mech init bento/ubuntu-14.04
mech up
mech ssh
mech init
can be used to pull a box file which will be installed and generate a mechfile in the current directory. You can also pull boxes from Vagrant Cloud with mech init freebsd/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE
. Barring that, mech up <name>
can also be used to specify a vmx file to start.
pip install git+https://github.com/Kronuz/mech.git
If the box you init was created properly, you will be able to access the host's current working directory in /mnt/hgfs/mech
. If you are having trouble try running:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo vmware-config-tools.pl