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dthree
dthree

Reputation: 20730

Vagrant's use against Hyper-V

I am getting my feet wet with Vagrant.

I am trying to use it to auto deploy a number of Windows Server 2012 VMs automatically. I am running into some bugs in that Hyper-V does not seem to be a first class citizen in terms of attention and support from Vagrant in relation to other operating systems and virtualization platforms.

When researching Hyper-V, I find it also supports automated deployment.

So my question is, what is the main benefit to using Vagrant on top of Hyper-V alone? I am not countering its usefulness, I am more asking what can be gained from it that Hyper-V alone could not handle as well?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 183

Answers (1)

sschuberth
sschuberth

Reputation: 29801

The benefit of using Vagrant is that you could easily support other host OSes than Windows. If you use Hyper-V alone you're stuck to Windows as a host. But if you ever need to run your Windows Server 2012 VMs on Linux, you could do that easily by adding support for different providers than Hyper-V, e.g. for VirtualBox, to your Vagrant box, and then just vagrant up it under Linux.

Upvotes: 1

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