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+page_title: "Vagrant 1.5 Feature Preview: Hyper-V, SMB Synced Folders, Windows"
+title: "Feature Preview: Hyper-V, SMB Synced Folders, Windows"
+author: "Mitchell Hashimoto"
+author_url: https://github.com/mitchellh
+---
+
+Vagrant has worked on Windows for over four years. Vagrant has worked
+_well_ on Windows for about two years. With Vagrant 1.5, Vagrant is
+_excellent_ on Windows with dozens of bug fixes and a couple big Windows-only
+features: Hyper-V and SMB synced folders.
+
+Vagrant 1.5 will ship with a [Hyper-V](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V)
+provider out of the box. This is big news! This is the first provider other
+than VirtualBox to ship with Vagrant itself (with more to come). And, Hyper-V
+comes built-in to almost all editions of Windows 8+, meaning Vagrant works
+with nothing more than a Windows computer for most people.
+
+Additionally, Windows users have the option now to use
+[SMB](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block) synced folders.
+SMB is a technology built right into Windows, just like Hyper-V, making
+it easy for Windows users to get high performance synced folders out of
+the box.
+
+Read on to learn more about these features.
+
+READMORE
+
+### Thank You Microsoft
+
+I'd like to start this post off with a big thanks to
+[MS OpenTech](http://msopentech.com/). MS OpenTech did most of the hard
+work implementing the Hyper-V and SMB synced folder features.
+
+I only had to merge the code and make it more "Vagrant-friendly," which
+is far easier than the hard technical details to make the features work.
+
+MS OpenTech will continue improving Vagrant for Windows in the coming
+months, adding more features and support across the board for Windows.
+The biggest feature that is on the way is first class support for
+Windows VMs.
+
+Thank you MS OpenTech!
+
+### Hyper-V
+
+Hyper-V is a native hypervisor built by Microsoft that ships with
+most installations of Windows 8+. While it is built by Microsoft, it
+is able to virtualize any modern x86/x64 operating system, including
+all major distributions of Linux. Of course, it is able to run Windows
+very well, too.
+
+With Vagrant 1.5, Hyper-V is a provider built-in to Vagrant. No additional
+plugin installs are necessary; just install Vagrant and you're ready.
+
+<div class="center">
+	<img src="/images/blog/hyperv_preview.gif" alt="Vagrant + Hyper-V Example">
+</div>
+
+A downside of Hyper-V: once it is enabled, no other virtualization technology
+can be used (such as VirtualBox or VMware), so it is an all-in or all-out
+technology choice. The upside, however, is that it is built-in to Windows with no additional
+software installs.
+
+Vagrant 1.5 will be the first iteration of the Hyper-V provider. The VirtualBox
+and VMware providers are both extremely mature and work very well. While
+the Hyper-V provider works, we expect there to be some bugs and loose ends
+that we'll be improving over upcoming releases.
+
+### SMB Synced Folders
+
+Along with the [RSync Synced Folders](/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-5-rsync.html)
+coming in Vagrant 1.5, we're introducing support for SMB as a mechanism
+for synced folders.
+
+SMB is a technology built into Windows that allows you to share any
+Windows folder over the network. For Vagrant, we use this mechanism to
+create a bi-directional folder share with Vagrant environments.
+
+This is the preferred synced folder mechanism for use with the Hyper-V
+provider, but is not limited to only Hyper-V. SMB is available as a higher
+performance option for VirtualBox, similar to NFS for Linux.
+
+You can explicitly enable the folder, as usual:
+
+<pre class="prettyprint lang-ruby">
+config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "smb"
+</pre>
+
+Or, if you specify nothing, SMB will be used by default if VM
+shared folders aren't available. Therefore, it is recommended to keep your
+Vagrant environment compatible with all operating systems to just leave off
+the type.
+
+### Other Windows Improvements
+
+Vagrant 1.5 has dozens of bug fixes to improve the experience of Vagrant
+on Windows. Even if the features above aren't useful to you as a Vagrant
+user on Windows, Vagrant 1.5 is highly recommended.
+
+In addition to little bug fixes, the Vagrant MSI installers starting with
+Vagrant 1.5 will be properly signed. Over time, this should eliminate most
+warnings when Vagrant is downloaded and installed on Windows, and should
+improve confidence when you download a Vagrant update that it has not
+been tampered with.
+
+### Next
+
+This is just the first step in better supporting Windows. We have a few
+more bugs to fix, improvements to make to both Hyper-V and SMB, and more.
+Most importantly, we're gunning to support Windows guests more fully in
+future releases of Vagrant.
+
+There are even more features and improvements coming in Vagrant 1.5,
+but this concludes the feature preview series for Vagrant 1.5. Expect a
+release soon.

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