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# Vagrant boxes
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Boxes are the package format for Vagrant environments. You specify a box environment and operating configurations in your [Vagrantfile](/docs/vagrantfile). You can use a box on any [supported platform](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads) to bring up identical working environments. To enable teams to use and manage the same boxes, versions are supported.
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Boxes are the package format for Vagrant environments. You specify a box environment and operating configurations in your [Vagrantfile](/docs/vagrantfile). You can use a box on any [supported platform](https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads) to bring up identical working environments. To enable teams to use and manage the same boxes, [versions are supported](/docs/boxes/versioning).
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~> Boxes require a provider, a virtualization product, to operate. Before you can use a box,
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ensure that you have properly installed a supported [provider](/docs/providers).
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~> It is often a point of confusion, but Canonical, the company that makes the Ubuntu operating system, publishes boxes under the "ubuntu" namespace on Vagrant Cloud. These boxes only support VirtualBox.
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## Create a box
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If you are unable to find a box that meets your specific use case, you can create one. We recommend that you first create a [base box](/docs/boxes/base) to have a clean slate to start from when you build future development environments.
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Learn more about [box formats](/docs/boxes/format) to get started.
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