#Introduction For the most part, you can follow the instructions given by Jeffrey Way at Laracasts - Say Hello to Laravel Homestead 2.
If you are like me and also have a 32-bit installation of Windows with low RAM, the there are a few exceptions.
#Setting up 32-bit Homestead
Firstly, the default homestead VM is a 64-bit version of Ubuntu, so you'll need to change that. Thankfully, someone has created a 32-bit version of homestead already. To do this, you will need to go to C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\laravel\homestead\scripts\
and then edit the homestead.rb
file.
Following the instructions from here, within the homestead.rb
file you will need to change the line