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Platform Notes
Vagrant and minicoin try to make the boxes all behave the same from the host's perspective, but there are some guest-system specific requirements:
A guest is identified as running Windows when either the name of the machine, or the name of the box includes the string "windows", or when the "os" attribute is set to "windows".
Windows machines support WinRM and ssh, but only WinRM works reliably for provisioning. To be able to talk WinRM via Vagrant, install the ruby gem on the host:
$ sudo gem install winrm
$ sudo gem install winrm-elevated # needed only on some Linux distros
A guest is identified as running macOS when either the name of the machine, or the name of the box includes the string "mac", or when the "os" attribute is set to "macos".
Since VirtualBox doesn't provide guest additions for Mac systems, minicoin is using sshfs for file sharing between the guest and the host. For this to work, the host needs to run an SSH server that allows key based authentication.
When bringing a Mac guest up, minicoin will create a dedicated SSH key pair,
and add the public key to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. After a box has
been destroyed, these keys will be deleted again, and removed from the
authorized_keys file.
VMware tools are supported for macOS guests, so if you are using VMware Fusion as the VM provider, you don't need an SSH server on the host.