In this section, you will learn how to install VirtualBox and Vagrant onto a macOS environment. You will learn how to find out what your CPU architecture is and what version of the Mac operating system you are running. In this section, we will be using macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 64-bit as our example operating system and computer setup.
Before we install VirtualBox and Vagrant, we need to learn some basic information about your system. This is information required to help you select which package to download.
Finding out what version of macOS you are running will help you choose which package installer to download.
One of the easiest and quickest ways to find out system information for Mac is to run the sw_vers
command in the Terminal:
There are two key values here we can focus on: ProductName
, which is Mac OS X
; and ProductVersion
, which is 10.13.3
.