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Question

I am trying to create a virtual machine with RHEL 7.7 using vagrant. I am very new with vagrant.

When I did vagrant up many different libraries and dependencies are downloaded and installed.

Among those one is Ansible. The virtual machine failed to start because it failed to install Ansible.

When i tried to execute a yum command, its not even able to find yum.

What is the problem here and how can i resolve this ?

thanks