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Figure 5-3. kitchen create logic
The kitchen-vagrant driver uses prepackaged basebox templates to accelerate the virtual ma-
chine creation process. A basebox contains a bare-bones OS installation, just enough to en-
able Chef to run. Test Kitchen comes preconfigured to use baseboxes that Chef Software
makes available on the Internet via VagrantCloud. The baseboxes vary in size, depending on
the operating system, and are roughly the size of a CD—a 400-MB to 600-MB download.
Test Kitchen downloads a basebox only once, if it is not already present on your system.
Vagrant maintains the catalog of baseboxes, which you can view with the command vagrant
box list .