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Re: Vagrant 1.6 has been released

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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…

Thanks, I'm going to give this a look since you can use the trial ISO's.
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