I think you’re describing an issue with virtual box not with Vagrant directly. You could just as easily and much more portably put those “manual steps” into a

I think you’re describing an issue with virtual box not with Vagrant directly. You could just as easily and much more portably put those “manual steps” into a shell script and run it as a Vagrant provisioning script. If you pick the right base box you will have portability across Mac, Linux, Windows hosts, using any number of available hypervisor/ish layers (vbox, parallels, VMWare, hyperv, lxc, etc)