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Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM



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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29 2015,tomas@tuxteam.de nil wrote:
> 
> 
> [snipped 8 lines]
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> > IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions...
> >
> > On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on
> > different "technologies", those tools may help. But for single
> > (or very similar) VMs, some scripting glue around qemu-kvm are
> > probably simpler...
> >
> 
> 
> Thanks but if you/anyone can expand on what vagrant provides that a VM
> lacks, it'd help more.

The Wikipedia entry [1] is (as often) a good starting point. Vagrant isn't
a VM -- just a wrapper around "VM technology".

Regards
- -- t
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