Using Vagrant With Parallels Desktop

A simple skeleton of Django application provisioned with Vagrant + Parallels Desktop. This example is for beginners that need some starting ground to experiment with.

Contents:

• A Vagrantfile containing virtual machine settings
• install_packages.sh is called after creating the VM to install additional software
• requirements.txt specifies which Python packages to install

Getting Started

First, install Vagrant. Then use the built in plugin manager to install Parallels Desktop compatibility module:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-parallels

Then get the sample code:

git clone https://github.com/Parallels/vagrant-django-example.git
cd vagrant-django-example

Now, to produce the virtual machine:

vagrant up --provider=parallels

The only thing left is to create a Django project and start a HTTP server.

vagrant ssh

#(then, within the SSH session:)
django-admin.py startproject vagrant_django .
nohup python manage.py runserver [::]:8000 >&/dev/null &
exit

Now if you point your browser to http://localhost:8000, you'll see a fresh Django installation.