Installing Vagrant on a Headless Debian Server
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I have decided to perform most of the computation intensive tasks on our university server rack. I have a VM provisioned on this rack. Since the VM is running an old version of Debian build, I want to keep this build minimal and work on projects on a separate VM running a bleeding edge Ubuntu Server provisioned by Vagrant. I started looking into ways to run Vagrant on a headless Debian build, and it looks quite straightforward.
Install Virtualbox
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-dkms
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
$ sudo service virtualbox start
Setup a Ruby Environment
$ sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev rubygems
Install Vagrant as a Ruby gem
$ sudo gem install vagrant
