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Useful Vagrant Commands	blog	posts	Here are the basic commands that you need to adminster a virtual machine using <a href="http://vagrantup.com" title="The Vagrant Home page">Vagrant</a>.	Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for managing virtual machines within VirtualBox from the command line. Here are some useful commands to know when using Vagrant:

Command	Description
vagrant init {box}	Initialise a new VM in the current working directory. Specify a box name, or "base" will be used by default.
vagrant status	Shows the status of the Vagrant box(es) within the current working directory tree.
vagrant up (--provision)	Boots the Vagrant box. Including "–provision" also runs the "vagrant provision" command.
vagrant reload (--provision)	Reloads the Vagrant box. Including "--provision" also runs the "vagrant provision" command.
vagrant provision	Provision the Vagrant box using Puppet.
vagrant suspend	Suspend the Vagrant box. Use "vagrant up" to start the box again.
vagrant halt (-f)	Halt the Vagrant box. Use -f to forcefully shut down the box without prompting for confirmation.
vagrant destroy (-f)	Destroys a Vagrant box. Use -f to forcefully shut down the box without prompting for confirmation.

The full Vagrant documentation can be found at http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/.