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title: Changes - 0.2.x to 0.3.x
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# Changes from Version 0.2.x to 0.3.x
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Vagrant `0.2.0` was a very stable release for Vagrant. No showstopping bugs were reported
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and based on the feedback in `#vagrant`, the mailing list, and twitter, people have been
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using Vagrant quite successfully.
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This stability allowed us to focus on refinement and new features for Vagrant `0.3.x`.
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## Microsoft Windows Support!
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Vagrant now officially supports Windows as a host machine. Web developers stuck on
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Windows can now develop in linux environments while continuing to use RubyMine or
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any text editor you prefer on Windows.
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**Windows support is very beta. Its known to work on Windows XP and Windows 7. Windows Vista is untested.**
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For a quick-start guide on Windows, see our [Windows setup guide](/docs/getting-started/setup/windows.html).
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## `vagrant` Command Changes
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`vagrant down` is now `vagrant destroy`. A deprecation warning has been inserted
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into `0.3.0` but will be removed completely for any subsequent release.
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Additionally, the `vagrant` commands are no longer "git style" binaries. This means
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that the `vagrant up` is no longer equivalent to `vagrant-up`. The space is now
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mandatory. This was required to improve extensibility and functionality of the
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specific commands.
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## Improved Packaging
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While Vagrant makes it easy to package (and repackage) environments for
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distribution, we thought it could be easier. The major annoyance in packaging
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was that the MAC address for boxes had to be extracted and packaged manually.
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No more! You can now literally just do a `vagrant package` within a Vagrant
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environment, and it will package a fully functional environment. You can still
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include customizations and so on with the `--include` flag, and these will
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continue to work as expected.
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## Base Box Packaging with `vagrant package`
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Base box creators rejoice! You can now package base boxes using the `vagrant package`
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command. This also means that, along with the above change, you no longer need
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to "copy down the MAC address," since Vagrant handles this for you. An example,
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if you created a base virtual machine named "karmic" (in VirtualBox):
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{% highlight bash %}
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$ vagrant package --base karmic
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{% endhighlight %}
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That's all there is to it! No more manual Vagrantfile creation, no more manual
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`tar`ing, etc.
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## Minor Changes
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#### Specifying a Box with `vagrant init`
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`vagrant init` now takes an optional argument to specify the base box. Previously,
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the generated Vagrantfile used "base" as the box and this always had to be edited.
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Now, if you want to use a "karmic" box, for example, just run `vagrant init karmic`.
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#### Progress Bars
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Importing and exporting VMs now have a nice progress bar (similar to HTTP
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box adding). You can visually see the progress of these operations, instead
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of blindly waiting for a few minutes. Its a minor change, but it has made
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using Vagrant that much more enjoyable.
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This change was made possible to do a massive change in
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Vagrant's most important dependency: the [VirtualBox gem](http://github.com/mitchellh/virtualbox).
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The VirtualBox gem now uses the native C interface to talk with the
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VirtualBox API, rather than piggybacking on top of XML files and `VBoxManage`.
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#### Chef Solo Role Support
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Roles can now be used with chef solo by specifying a path to the roles
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directory with `config.chef.roles_path`. Roles can then be added to the
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chef run list just like chef server. For more details on how to configure
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roles for chef solo, read [the official documentation](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Chef+Solo#ChefSolo-Roles).
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#### Refinement, Refinement, Refinement
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While `0.2.x` had no showstopper bugs, it certainly had its share of odd
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behavior, edge case bugs, etc. All out-standing bugs in the [issue tracker](http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues)
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have been closed (as of this writing) and Vagrant is more stable than ever.
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As always, if you run into any troubles, please report the issue on the
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GitHub [issue tracker](http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues). |