have a way to connect to the virtualbox 'console' instead of sshing in

[astubbs]

this is useful in some circumstances

[mitchellh]

astubbs,

Could you explain this feature more please? What is the "virtualbox console?"

Mitchell

[astubbs]

I think it may be the distinction between headless, and not headless. I.e. when you start VB you get the 'console' - you see the machine booting etc and can then log in and issue commands (ie no ssh)... With vagrant, i think you boot it in headless mode, so you don't see the boot process and cannot enter commands etc etc - the only way to connect is with ssh.

[mitchellh]

astubbs,

Gotcha! This is now possibly via the config.vm.boot_mode configuration. Just set it to "gui" to boot into the gui. Commit: http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/commit/4149313e7a67e9a8fb964cafb31c83c2c1f9ce0c

Mitchell