Box File Format
Box File Format
In the past, boxes were just tar files of VirtualBox exports. With Vagrant supporting multiple providers and versioning now, box files are slightly more complicated.
Box files made for Vagrant 1.0.x (the VirtualBox export tar files) continue to work with Vagrant today. When Vagrant encounters one of these old boxes, it automatically updates it internally to the new format.
Today, there are two different components:
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Box File - This is a compressed (
tar,tar.gz,zip) file that is specific to a single provider and can contain anything. Vagrant core does not ever use the contents of this file. Instead, they are passed to the provider. Therefore, a VirtualBo
