ansible-osx-vagrant-ready

Ansible playbook to prepare a bare OS X VM for vagrant

Manual Steps

install OS X updates (these scripts are written for 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite is not yet tested)
when you create the OS X user the username should be "vagrant" and the password should be "vagrant" too
enable SSH : System Preferences / Sharing / Remote Login: enable
make sure auto login to user" is enabled for the "vagrant" user

allow 2 CPUs and at least 2GB of RAM (3-4 is the optimal) -> this can help to speed up the setup (you can downscale it after the setup if you like).
turn off the App Store automatic update
- System Preferences -> App Store -> Automatically check for updates
turn off sleep
- System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Change all options to 'never' and disable Hard disk sleep
turn off screen saver
turn off every sharing between the VM and the Guest
- in Parallels:
  - Virtual Machine -> Configure -> Security
    - Isolate Mac from virtual machine
    - Time Machine: do not backup
  - Virtual Machine -> Configure -> Options -> Advanced
    - Time: Do not sync
    - Copy & Paste: disable

Install the 'Guest Additions' of your VM system for better speed and other integration.

create a 'hosts' file in this folder and add a single line containing the VM's IP address
- example: $ echo '10.211.55.20' > hosts
run the playbook
- you can use the 'run_playbook.sh' script: $ bash ./run_playbook.sh