Support alternate Vagrant providers

[ideologysec]

Please add support in the Vagrantfile for the vmware_fusion and/or vmware_desktop providers - they can do USB passthrough as well or better than VirtualBox, are generally more performant, and in many cases are already installed.

For example, I can't install a new hypervisor on my corp laptop without IT approval, but VMware and the Vagrant plugin are already installed and ready to be used, this box just doesn't work with them.

[ideologysec]

here's a first pass that works pretty well (please note, the base box is different; not sure how much that matters or not). I'm using Fusion 11.5, Vagrant 2.2.7, and the latest vagrant-vmware plugin. WiFi Explorer Pro automatically detects the Alfa/Ralink wireless adapter, and scans work!

(my next pass would be to switch to alpine, which is even lighter weight, but that requires a bit more work)

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "bento/debian-10.2"
  if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-vbguest")
    config.vbguest.auto_update = false
  end
  config.vm.provider "vmware_desktop" do |vmware|
    # I think GUI needs to be present for hotplugging to work
    vmware.gui = true
    vmware.vmx["memsize"] = "256"
    vmware.vmx["numvcpus"] = "1"
    vmware.vmx["guestos"] = "debian10-64"
    vmware.vmx["usb.present"] = "TRUE"
    vmware.vmx["ehci.present"] = "TRUE"
    vmware.vmx["usb_xhci.present"] = "TRUE"
    vmware.vmx["ide0:0.clientdevice"] = "FALSE"
    vmware.vmx["ide0:0.devicetype"] = "cdrom-raw"
    vmware.vmx["ide0:0.filename"] = "auto detect"
  end
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.name = "EASE"
    vb.memory = "256"
    vb.cpus = "1"
    vb.default_nic_type = "virtio"
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usb", "on"]
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usbxhci", "on"]
  end
  config.vm.provision :file, source: "ease.py", destination: "ease.py"
  config.vm.provision :file, source: "ease", destination: "ease"
  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5000, host: 5000
  for i in 26700..26710
    config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: i, host: i
  end
  config.vm.post_up_message = "External Adapter Support Environment (EASE)"
end

[adriangranados]

Nice. I'll look into it. When I first wrote EASE, VirtualBox was the only provider available on Mac. I also remember trying Alpine but I got into so many issues trying to compile the wireless drivers that I gave up. Maybe it's time for a new attempt.