From ac95cb5785198efa3555244761ea4bbc4100b882 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitchell Hashimoto Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:58:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README --- README.md | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 42164f8e6..7e1325dbf 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. +Development environments managed by Vagrant can run on local virtualized +platforms such as VirtualBox or VMware, in the cloud via AWS or OpenStack, +or in containers such as with Docker or raw LXC. + Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable @@ -14,9 +18,15 @@ between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. ## Quick Start -First, make sure your development machine has [VirtualBox](http://www.virtualbox.org) -installed. After this, [download and install the appropriate Vagrant package for your OS](http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads). If you're not on Mac OS X or Windows, you'll need -to add `/opt/vagrant/bin` to your `PATH`. After this, you're ready to go! +For the quick-start, we'll bring up a development machine on +[VirtualBox](http://www.virtualbox.org) because it is free and works +on all major platforms. Vagrant can, however, work with almost any +system such as OpenStack, VMware, Docker, etc. + +First, make sure your development machine has +[VirtualBox](http://www.virtualbox.org) +installed. After this, +[download and install the appropriate Vagrant package for your OS](http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads). To build your first virtual environment: