There's not really a way to do that uniformly right now on any system that isn't Linux. I agree that it would be ideal, but the core philosophy behind Vagrant i

There's not really a way to do that uniformly right now on any system that isn't Linux. I agree that it would be ideal, but the core philosophy behind Vagrant is a single configuration recipe to create portable environments (development). You can do a lot of things in shell scripts, but its still easier to have it all in one place in an easily grokable format.