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Modifying Vagrant box memory settings

To increase the default Vagrant box memory with the VirtualBox provider there are VirtualBox specific configuration options. We are currently using the following:

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
  vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
end

The latest documentation also lists the following shortcut for VirtualBox memory configuration:

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
  v.memory = 1024
end

If you are using the VMWare Provider the configuration is different.

config.vm.provider "vmware_fusion" do |v|
  v.vmx["memsize"] = "1024"
end

If using VMWare Workstation you would replace vmware_fusion with vmware_workstation.