How to run development version of vagrant on windows.

.gemrc

:ssl_verify_mode: 0

vagrant-dev.bat

@echo off
PATH %PATH%;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\bin;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gnuwin32\bin;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\mingw64\bin;
ruby c:\vagrant\exec\vagrant %*

vagrant-development-on-windows.md

These are the steps to install a dev version of Vagrant on your Windows machine. It does assume you also have normal Vagrant installed on the default location, since it needs the packages binaries of a few libraries to work completely. Normal path would be C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant.

• Install Ruby 2.2 ( http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ ) and let the install add Ruby to the path.
• Download the DevelopmentKit ( http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ ) and extract to a directory (eg. c:\RubyDevKit)
• Open command prompt and run installation scripts ( https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit#4-run-installation-scripts )
• cd c:\RubyDevKit
• ruby dk.rb init
• ruby dk.rb install

At the moment the version of Ruby / Bundler used has a bug which results in the following error SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed. See stackoverflow for a solution.

• Easiest fix for now is to create a .gemrc file in your %USERPROFILE% with the following content: :ssl_verify_mode: 0.

Next up, getting Vagrant running from source. Their documentation is mostly correct. ( https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/installation/source.html#install-ruby )

• Clone vagrant git clone https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant.git ( for this document i assume the path will be c:\vagrant )
• Check vagrant.gemspec for the specific version of bundler you need. And install that version (currently 1.12.5).
• gem install bundler -v '1.12.5'

Now we will install the vagrant bundle

• cd vagrant Enter the directory you cloned Vagrant to
• bundle install Install the bundle
• bundle --binstubs exec Create an executable file to use vagrant anywhere

In order to run vagrant you need a few directories added to your path. You can either do this globally in system settings, or just use a batch file to set them when you run Vagrant from source.

I use a batch file copies to %USERPROFILE% (c:\users\[my username]\) so i can just run the dev version of Vagrant in my console by typing vagrant-dev.

To load plugins you need to edit the Gemfile in the root of the vagrant repository. Just add the following code with the correct plugins. After editing the file, run bundle install and it will install the plugins.

source "https://rubygems.org"

gemspec

if File.exist?(File.expand_path("../../vagrant-spec", __FILE__))
  gem 'vagrant-spec', path: "../vagrant-spec"
else
  gem 'vagrant-spec', git: "https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-spec.git"
end

group :plugins do
  gem "vagrant-remove-old-box-versions"
  gem "vagrant-reload"
  gem "vagrant-triggers"
  gem "vagrant-vbguest"
  gem "vagrant-hosts-provisioner"
end

Thanks for the help, that seems like a lot less effort :)