Create a local dev env by installing VMware Workstation Pro (free for personal use), git, and VSCode, and Vagrant
- Install Vagrant VMware Utility:
https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/providers/vmware/vagrant-vmware-utility
- Install vagrant manually.
- Install vagrant plugins:
- vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
- vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-desktop
If Vagrant is installed before VMware or any provider, it will not recognize the VMware provider 1
Footnotes
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The common error is: "No usable default provider could be found for your system." Configure the following ENV var in the user scope: VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER vmware_desktop Failing to install the plugins listed above after Vagrant, will also cause the same error. ↩