I've used josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi with moderate success. There's an obligate password interaction needed for a deploy that makes it more awkward than some other providers, but it generally works the way it's supposed to and I've tried it with something like a dozen different boxes (Linux host, ESXI 6.7 target). Virtualbox is not designed for standalone baremetal installation (so far as I know), so it's not a good comparison.
If you want absolute highest performance, of course, you don't want any layers of VM or hypervisor, but for ordinary work the performance losses are usually small and acceptable. The strength of Vagrant is to be able to do quick, repeatable installs of a particular VM environment and the requirements on Vagrant boxes to work as Vagrant boxes mean a few compromises on security and configuration. My understanding is that most people use Vagrant as a way to bring up disposable test environments, not as a way to deploy production machines (for which there are recommended, better alternatives, such as Terraform, among others). (My server is much more modest than yours; it's a Dell R210-II with just one quad processor and 16GB but as a home server, it works for my small experiments and is quiet enough except when the fans go all out for a minute or so every couple of months when a new cert is being deployed to the iDRAC.) -- jmcg -- 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/c65a4aea-3877-44ef-ac25-dd342b347822%40googlegroups.com.
