Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The Vagrant installer will extract, copy files, and add the vagrant command to the executable path."

A block of code is set as follows:

-rw-------  0 cothomps staff 1960775680 Jul 24 20:42 ./box-disk1.vmdk
-rw-------  0 cothomps staff      12368 Jul 24 20:38 ./box.ovf
-rw-r--r--  0 cothomps staff        505 Jul 24 20:42 ./Vagrantfile

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = "chad-thompson/ubuntu-trusty64-gui"  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vbox|
 vbox.gui = true
 end
end

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

vagrant box add http://servername/boxes/environment.box

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "A new installation of VirtualBox will display a welcome message in a window titled Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager."