[Devtools] Recommended Vagrant & Virtualbox versions

[Alexey Kazakov]

Thank you!

This topic was moved from the cdk internal list where we now have a 
parallel discussion.
Let me try to summarize both discussions here.

1. Vagrant 1.7.4 is recommended because 1.8.0 and 1.8.1 has some issues.
2. Virtualbox 5.0.* were used during Beta testing and seemed to work 
perfectly. So, the latest 5.0.* version can be recommended.

If that is correct then IMO we should:

1. If user has nothing installed on his/her machine then our CDK + JBDS 
windows installer should download & install vagrant 1.7.4 & virtualbox 
5.0.16 (the latest currently available version).
2. If user has vagrant 1.8.* installed then warm him/her that 
1.8.0/1.8.1 has critical issues and 1.7.4 is strongly recommended.
3. If user has vagrant <= 1.7.3 then warn that version was not tested 
and 1.7.4 is recommended.
4. If user has virtualbox 5.0.* then no warnings. Just re-use it by default.
5. If user has virtualbox < 5.0 or 5.1 or higher then warn that version 
was not tested and the "bundled" 5.0.16 is recommended.

Does it look reasonable to you?

On 04/04/2016 06:26 AM, David Kutalek wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
>
> vagrant-1.7.4 and virtualbox-5.0.8 are versions recommended by developers
> for Windows environment. We tested also with newer versions of virtualbox
> without problems. Some versions of vagrant 1.8.x are buggy so not recommended
> in installation guide:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterprise-linux-atomic-host/version-7/getting-started-with-container-development-kit
>
> David Kutalek
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Anyone?
>>
>> On 04/01/2016 06:04 AM, Pete Muir wrote:
>>> Moving to devtools.
>>>
>>> On 31 March 2016 at 22:51, Alexey Kazakov <alkazako at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> What are recommended versions of Vagrant & Virtualbox for CDK?
>>>> In our windows installer (CDK+JBDS+Vagrant+Virtualbox) we download
>>>> vagrant-1.7.4 and virtualbox-5.0.8.
>>>> I saw somewhere in the CDK getting started guide that vagrant 1.8.0 and
>>>> 1.8.1 are not recommended because of some issues, so we will stick with
>>>> vagrant-1.7.4 for now.
>>>> I don't see any restrictions/recommendations regarding vagrant and
>>>> virtualbox versions in the Getting Started guide [1] any more though.
>>>> And what about virtualbox? The latest available version is 5.0.16. Any
>>>> recommendations here?
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-enterprise-linux-atomic-host/version-7/getting-started-with-container-development-kit
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
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