I use chef-solo with Vagrant, I rarely use chef-server/client with Vagrant. My dev box rarely needs to separate out environments, for example. You do not need

I use chef-solo with Vagrant, I rarely use chef-server/client with Vagrant. My dev box rarely needs to separate out environments, for example. You do not need to bootstrap Chef 11. You download a single omnibus package and run a single line to install it. All dependencies are already embedded into the package. Under the covers, it bootstraps itself, but from the end user's perspective, It Just Works.