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page_title: "Default Provider - Providers"
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sidebar_current: "providers-default"
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# Default Provider
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By default, VirtualBox is the default provider for Vagrant. VirtualBox is
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still the most accessible platform to use Vagrant: it is free, cross-platform,
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and has been supported by Vagrant for years. With VirtualBox as the default
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provider, it provides the lowest friction for new users to get started with
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Vagrant.
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However, you may find after using Vagrant for some time that you prefer
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to use another provider as your default. In fact, this is quite common.
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To make this experience better, Vagrant allows specifying the default
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provider to use by setting the `VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER` environmental
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variable.
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Just set `VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER` to the provider you wish to be the
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default. For example, if you use Vagrant with VMware Fusion, you can set
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the environmental variable to `vmware_fusion` and it will be your default.
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