An official Vagrant box is available on Hashicorp Atlas. To get started: vagrant init vmware/photon Add the following lines to the Vagrantfile: config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v| v.customize ['modifyvm', :id, '--acpi', 'off'] end Install vagrant-guests-photon plugin which provides VMware Photon OS guest support. It is available at https://github.com/vmware/vagrant-guests-photon. Requires VirtualBox 4.3 or later version. If you have issues, please check your version.