While Windows guests look interesting how are people going to get the initial box? Is every individual or organization going to have to create their own box or will there be some way to get a box if you are part of MSDN?
You have to acquire an ISO in some legal way yourself. Then, you can use something like packer-windows which has pre-built templates for various versions of Windows to build Vagrant-compatible boxes in about 10 minutes: https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows
It isn't as easy as "download pre-built Linux box" but for environments that are using Windows, this workflow has been amazing for them above what they used to do, and is quite fast.
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While Windows guests look interesting how are people going to get the initial box? Is every individual or organization going to have to create their own box or will there be some way to get a box if you are part of MSDN?
You have to acquire an ISO in some legal way yourself. Then, you can use something like packer-windows which has pre-built templates for various versions of Windows to build Vagrant-compatible boxes in about 10 minutes: https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows
It isn't as easy as "download pre-built Linux box" but for environments that are using Windows, this workflow has been amazing for them above what they used to do, and is quite fast.
Thanks, I'm going to give this a look since you can use the trial ISO's.
For what it's worth, the same guy makes Packer, a tool to create your own boxes. https://github.com/mitchellh/packer
It even allows you to replace the functionality of Vagrant - in place- to create, spin up, and provision the box all in one command.
It's super awesome.
perhaps the modern.ie dev vms could be boxed up
http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads