# <a id="vagrant"></a> Vagrant Demo VM
-The Icinga 2 Git repository contains support for Vagrant. In order to build the
-Vagrant VM first you will have to check out the Git repository:
+The Icinga 2 Git repository contains support for [Vagrant](http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/)
+with VirtualBox. In order to build the Vagrant VM first you will have to check out
+the Git repository:
$ git clone git://git.icinga.org/icinga2.git
$ vagrant up
+> **Note**
+>
+> Vagrant and VirtualBox are available for various distributions. Please note
+> that Vagrant version `1.0.x` is not supported. At least version `1.2.x` is
+> required to be installed (for example from [http://downloads.vagrantup.com](http://downloads.vagrantup.com)).
+
The Vagrant VM is based on CentOS 6.4 and uses the official Icinga 2 RPM
packages from `packages.icinga.org`.