Vagrant ubuntu development machine

Vagrantfile

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "wily"
  config.vm.box_url = "http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/wily/current/wily-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box"
  config.ssh.forward_agent = true
  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb, override|
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", 8]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
    override.vm.provision :shell, :inline => <<INLINE
set -e
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get update
apt-get -y dist-upgrade
apt-get -y install \
  build-essential \
  curl \
  git-core

INLINE
  end
end

Or just vagrant init debian/jessie64 && vagrant up etc