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title: "Create Virtual Machines on a Chromebook with HashiCorp Vagrant" # Title of the blog post.
date: 2023-02-20 # Date of post creation.
lastmod: 2024-01-17
lastmod: 2024-02-06
description: "Pairing the powerful Linux Development Environment on modern Chromebooks with HashiCorp Vagrant to create and manage local virtual machines for development and testing" # Description used for search engine.
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It took a bit of fumbling, but this article describes what it took to get a Vagrant-powered VM up and running in the [Linux Development Environment](https://chromeos.dev/en/linux) on my Chromebook (which is currently running ChromeOS v111 beta).
### Install the prerequisites
There are are a few packages which need to be installed before we can move on to the Vagrant-specific stuff. It's quite possible that these are already on your system.... but if they *aren't* already present you'll have a bad problem[^problem].
First things first: you should make sure your Chromebook supports nested virtualization. Many newer ones do, but it's not a universal thing. It's easy to check just by looking for the `kvm` device file:
```shell
ls -l /dev/kvm # [tl! .cmd]
crw-rw---- 10,232 root 6 Feb 08:03 /dev/kvm # [tl! .nocopy]
```
As long as you don't get an error like `No such file or directory` then you should be good to go.
With that out of the way, there are are a few packages which need to be installed before we can move on to the Vagrant-specific stuff. It's quite possible that these are already on your system.... but if they *aren't* already present you'll have a bad problem[^problem].
```shell
sudo apt update && sudo apt install \ # [tl! .cmd]