[Devtools] Recommended Vagrant & Virtualbox versions

[Navid Shaikh]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Alexey Kazakov <alkazako at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
Yes. Thank you for summarizing this.

Chris, in addition to above, for other components like Eclipse and Docker
tooling plugin in Eclipse, IMO we should have a note as recommended
versions. Adding Xavier to thread, if he has any inputs on specific
versions for Eclipse Docker tooling plugin.


> 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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