When building automated development environments, you often hit a "chicken-and-egg" problem: some software requires a system reboot to complete its installation before the next step of your provisioning script can run. Normally, Vagrant’s provision command runs from start to finish without stopping, which can break installations that need a fresh boot.
Once installed, you don't "run" the plugin from the command line; instead, you define it in your Vagrantfile as a provisioner. Basic Example vagrant reload plugin download
In this setup, Vagrant will run the first script, reboot the machine, and then continue with the second script: Basic Example In this setup, Vagrant will run
This is particularly useful for corporate environments with strict firewalls. 3. Verify the Installation Basic Example In this setup
If vagrant up fails with an error about a missing provisioner, ensure you ran the install command above.