Yup, you understood it correctly. Vagrant is essentially a tool used to start/stop VMs and do light provisioning, and there is a plugin that allows this to interact with vSphere, but it would be more of an "exclusive" desktop per user rather than any kind of shared desktop. This plugin might do what you are wanting by allowing a user to spin up a VM from a template using `vagrant up`. https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere
As far as getting software installed to create a standard base image that the users start from, you can build VMware VMs locally or on vSphere using the vmware-iso or vsphere-iso plugins, and both of these are now maintained by Hashicorp. https://medium.com/@gmusumeci/deploying-vmware-vsphere-virtual-machines-with-packer-terraform-d0211f72b7f5 On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 2:48:29 AM UTC-5, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: > > Thanks. > > I have a setup described here ( > https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/introducing-the-vagrant-vmware-desktop-plugin/ > )on > my desktop. > > This is obviously what you meant my 'desktop' line of products ?? And the > procedure you described ia a VMWare/Vagrant VDI.that remote users can > access. I think that is what is currently not supported ? > > So if that is not supported then I think the VMWare VDI's ( without > Vagrant ) can have tools provisioned. > > Mohan > > On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 9:48:03 PM UTC+5:30, dragon788 wrote: >> >> You will probably want to use Packer to build out a base image and push >> it into your VMware infrastructure, then you can possibly configure access >> to the VMs via Vagrant with a vSphere connection, but as far as I'm aware >> the Vagrant VMware plugin is ONLY for use with the "desktop" line of >> products, ie Workstation/Fusion/Player Pro. >> >> >> On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 6:37:01 AM UTC-5, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I am trying to provision a set of development tools using >>> Vagrant on VMWare VDI's. The development tools comprise IDE's , JDK, NodeJS >>> and similar tools. Do others here use this setup ? Could you share any >>> views ? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mohan >>> >> -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues Discuss: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/vagrant/24 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/1c341eda-7422-4b17-ba0f-cb49a8133858%40googlegroups.com.
