# »vagrant up« hangs
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 3, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491 "2018-04-03T19:50:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@superslowwindows](https://meta.discourse.org/u/superslowwindows)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491/1 "2018-04-03T19:50:54Z")
So I do this vagrant up, but nothing happens. Then I simply downloaded the discourse.box by itself and added vagrant add discourse file.box and it unpacks it, thereafter nothing happens anyway. I’ve imported the vmdk into virtual box, and it quits.
It was designed to frustrate people, right?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491/2 "2018-04-03T22:47:50Z")
Vagrant is pretty abandoned, use one of the other guides:
> [@Install Discourse on Windows for development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-install-discourse-on-windows-10-for-development/75149):
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> information_source This tutorial has been tested on Windows 10 and 11. To set up a development environment for Discourse on Windows, you can do it using [Windows Subsystem for Linux](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install-win10) feature. This setup requires the WSL 2 installation. It is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher. We’ll assume that you already installed [Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install) on your Windows 10 system. WARNING: Install Ubuntu 18.04, and not 20.04 since some installations will fail on 20.04. For m…
> [@How Sam's Windows development environment is configured](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-sams-development-environment-is-configured/62444):
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> I wanted to do a post (that I try to keep up to date) with notes about my current dev environment. warning This was a setup I WAS using, I no longer really use it I develop on Linux native. This setup though is reasonable if you are on a Windows machine. My building blocks Windows 10 creators update [Wsltty](https://github.com/mintty/wsltty) which I prefer built in bash for windows console [VMWare workstation](http://store.vmware.com/store/vmware/en_US/pd/productID.323700100?src=ps_570c41fd1ed2e&kw=vmware%20workstation&mt=e&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=GS_eBiz_Lead_AMS_US_EN_BR_RLSA_Workstation&k_clickid=8496831c-55e5-47c0-9a78-6ae13e2eac7d&gclid=CjwKEAjw9MrIBRCr2LPek5-h8U0SJAD3jfht7cypaS23Oa1NFDVkZ90QPIsgun1xzZwzBfYUK-JhtBoChTPw_wcB) with latest Ubuntu installed [Mobaxterm](http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/) cause its nice to have an X server Vim plus my [vim setup](https://github.com/SamSaffron/vim-setup) installed inside th…
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### Author:  [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491/3 "2018-04-04T20:20:18Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Vagrant is pretty abandoned
Would it be worth the time to bring vagranting up-to-date?
If not, here’s a PR to rip it out.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5737](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5737)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491/4 "2018-04-04T20:51:44Z")
We might want to re-work this post as well.
> **[Discourse as Your First Rails App](https://blog.discourse.org/2013/04/discourse-as-your-first-rails-app/)**
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> Update April 4, 2018 The Discourse Vagrant development install is not longer supported and maintained. Current development install guides can be found at meta.discourse.org for Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491/5 "2018-04-05T00:33:02Z")
Yes who can re work that post? @jomaxro?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491/6 "2018-04-05T00:34:49Z")
The post is already updated. Per @sam I added an “update” section at the top explaining that the Discourse Vagrant development install is no longer maintained, along with links to current guides for Windows, OS X, and Ubuntu.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vagrant-up-hangs/84491/7 "2018-04-05T00:39:16Z")