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- Vagrant Triggers plugin is super useful https://github.com/emyl/vagrant-triggers

- I've found VMware Fusion as a provider worth the extra cost/disk space

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Oh and while it is in the docs, the sendfile/virtualbox gotcha has been the cause of many hours of anger

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/synced-folders/virtualbox.htm...

Do you find vmware base box availability an issue? Is it just you or a team using VMware?

There's between two and five of us, and we use the puphpet/ubuntu1604-x64 box.

https://app.vagrantup.com/puppetlabs/boxes/ubuntu-16.04-64-p...

Also here's a template for an initial LEMP WP setup

https://github.com/alexwybraniec/bwu-vagrant-wordpress

Creating your own base boxes is actually pretty straight forward since Packer.

Maintaining them is admittedly a bit of a time sink though.

Haha I'm aware. I'm the maintainer for https://app.vagrantup.com/koalephant - I was curious about vmware+Vagrant usage, we don't support it right now but I'm considering adding it.

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