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page_title: "Boxes"
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sidebar_current: "boxes"
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---
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# Boxes
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Boxes are the package format for Vagrant environments. A box can be used by
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anyone on any platform that Vagrant supports to bring up an identical
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working environment.
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The `vagrant box` utility provides all the functionality for managing
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boxes. You can read the documentation on the [vagrant box](/v2/cli/box.html)
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command for more information.
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The easiest way to use a box is to add a box from the
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[publicly available catalog of Vagrant boxes](https://vagrantcloud.com).
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You can also add and share your own customized boxes on this website.
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Boxes also support versioning so that members of your team using Vagrant
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can update the underlying box easily, and the people who create boxes
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can push fixes and communicate these fixes efficiently.
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You can learn all about boxes by reading this page as well as the
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sub-pages in the navigation to the left.
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## Discovering Boxes
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The easiest way to find boxes is to look on the
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[public Vagrant box catalog](https://vagrantcloud.com)
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for a box matching your use case. The catalog contains most major operating
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systems as bases, as well as specialized boxes to get you up and running
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quickly with LAMP stacks, Ruby, Python, etc.
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The boxes on the public catalog work with many different
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[providers](/v2/providers/index.html). Whether you're using Vagrant with
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VirtualBox, VMware, AWS, etc. you should be able to find a box you need.
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Adding a box from the catalog is very easy. Each box shows you instructions
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with how to add it, but they all follow the same format:
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```
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$ vagrant box add USER/BOX
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...
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```
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For example: `vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64`. You can also quickly
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initialize a Vagrant environment with `vagrant init hashicorp/precise64`.
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