You may want to use Hyper-V as your Hypervisor as you’re are already on a Windows machine when you found these words, I tried it out and can clearly not recommend you Hyper-V in combination with Vagrant and WSL. The installation of WSL and Virtualbox is not part of this introduction. I presume, that you’ve WSL2 and Virtualbox already running on your system. You can describe them in a Ruby styled way and deploy even a multi-VM environment with a simple configuration file and by running vagrant up. Vagrant uses so called Boxes which can be seen like Docker Images, just as VMs. Vagrant is really helpful when you want to setup a predefined, always the same environment to run some tests or to develop on.

Even when you got the installation right, there are still some stumbling blocks waiting for you when you try to run Ansible Playbooks during vagrant up. For a non-Linux user, it can get a little bit tricky when combining Vagrant with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Windows Vista will then re-evaluate your virtual PC performace and you should get around 5.Install and running Vagrant is in general pretty straightforward. Now, in rebooted Vista: click on Start -> type 'System' -> your graphical score determined by Windows is stuck on 1.0 points, so click on 'Change settings'.

Open File Explorer on your virtualized Vista and look at the files on the VMware Tools ISO (don’t start it through Windows autorun menu, this can cause an error)Ĭlick on setup64 on that ISO and let it install, then reboot the virtual machine Right click on your virtual machine->Removable devices-> then put ISO with VMware Tools into virtual CD/DVD mechanics (there is also an 'Install tools' option in the menu, but don’t use this in our situation!) Install Windows Vista 64bit (you can use 'easy install' from VMware, doesn’t matter)ĭownload VMware Tools 11.0.6 (this is the last version which officially supports Vista) Launch VMware Workstation (I used the Pro version, but it should work on Player too)Ĭreate new virtual machine in VMware 10.x compatibility modeĮnable option 'accelerate 3D graphics' in the virtual machine settings After some tinkering with VMware Workstation Pro, I found out the way to make Windows Vista + Aero work (even with WSL2 on the host enabled!):

Vmware player wsl2