Hashicorp vagrant with parallels hypervisor (in progress)

Install the vagrant-parallels plugin for use with Parallels Desktop by running a command in the terminal and listing installed plugins to verify the installation.

Master virtualization basics by contrasting type one bare-metal hypervisors and type two hosted hypervisors, learning how they allocate CPU, RAM, network, and storage.

Compare host os and guest os in virtualization, showing how the host runs on hardware while the guest operates inside a virtual machine, with type one and type two hypervisors.

Explore the five core Vagrantfile sections—box, provider, network, synced folder, and provision—and see how Ubuntu runs on Parallels, Nginx is provisioned, and localhost:8080 is exposed.

Vagrant uses the vagrant file to specify VM boxes, VMs, networking, and provisioning; it downloads boxes from vagrant cloud and configures a hypervisor with CPU, RAM, hostname, and IP.

Use vagrant box add to download boxes directly to your computer from Vagrant Cloud, even without a vagrant file; downloaded boxes reside in the user's home directory.

Open a terminal in the home directory, navigate to the vagrant/boxes directory, add the Bento Ubuntu 22.04 box using the Parallels provider, and verify the downloaded box.

Create a vagrantfile with vagrant init and run vagrant up; Vagrant downloads the box from Vagrant Cloud if needed, configures the VM with Parallels, and saves its UUID under vagrant/machines.

Initialize a vagrant environment in Parallels, remove unused boxes, then vagrant up to download and boot the Ubuntu box, and verify the vm with vagrant status and ip.

Vagrant global-status lists all active VMs with IDs, names, providers, states, and their project directories. Use it to locate the Vagrantfile, then destroy or suspend specific VMs as needed.

Learn how vagrant assigns names to created VMs with config.vm.define, defaulting to 'default' when no name is set, while the internal hostname remains 'vagrant', and how to rename to 'server'.

Configure a virtual machine hostname using config.vm.hostname in a vagrant file, launch and ssh into the box, and verify the hostname updates to foo.

Configure the vagrant file to name parallels virtual machines by passing the VM name to the hypervisor, and verify the labeled VM in the GUI and its bar.pvm directory.

Explore Vagrant VM states from not created to running, suspended, stopped, and destroyed, including managing background processes and IP address changes across lifecycle transitions.

Create A, B, and C files in a vagrant vm, take snapshots named a snapshot, b snapshot, and c snapshot, then restore to the c snapshot to remove the mistake.

Explore how Vagrant and the Parallels hypervisor configure networking, including Vagrant files, virtual machines, and networks, and how traffic flows between VMs and the outside world.

Understand how Parallels network types—shared, bridged, and host only—map to Vagrant's public, private, and implicit networks, noting that forwarded ports have no direct mapping.

Connect to vagrant virtual machines via ssh in parallels and explore the default shared network. Capture and analyze icmp traffic and nat behavior with wireshark on bridge 100.