A virtual machine running Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) with some basic tools for writing.
From a terminal on your host machine, run
vagrant up
- Wait until the (long!) initial build has completed. This will build, but not start the Desktop GUI.
- Run
vagrant halt
. The next time you runvagrant up
, the system will start a graphic interface.
To login to the graphic interface, use the login window (shown below) to login as the user vagrant
, with password vagrant
.