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page_title: "Installing Vagrant"
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  Installing Vagrant is extremely easy. Head over to the Vagrant downloads page
  and get the appropriate installer or package for your platform. Install the
  package using standard procedures for your operating system.
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# Installing Vagrant

Installing Vagrant is extremely easy. Head over to the
[Vagrant downloads page](/downloads.html) and get the appropriate installer or
package for your platform. Install the package using standard procedures for
your operating system.

The installer will automatically add `vagrant` to your system path
so that it is available in terminals. If it is not found, please try
logging out and logging back in to your system (this is particularly
necessary sometimes for Windows).

<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  <strong>Looking for the gem install?</strong> Vagrant 1.0.x had the option to
  be installed as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyGems">RubyGem</a>.
  This installation method is no longer supported. If you have an old version
  of Vagrant installed via Rubygems, please remove it prior to installing newer
  versions of Vagrant.
</div>

<div class="alert alert-warning" role="alert">
  <strong>Beware of system package managers!</strong> Some operating system
  distributions include a vagrant package in their upstream package repos.
  Please do not install Vagrant in this manner. Typically these packages are
  missing dependencies or include very outdated versions of Vagrant. If you
  install via your system's package manager, it is very likely that you will
  experience issues. Please use the official installers on the downloads page.
</div>

## If You're Running Other Virtualizers on Linux

On some systems you may get the following error when running Vagrant
commands:

    There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

    Command: ["startvm", <ID of the VM>, "--type", "headless"]

    Stderr: VBoxManage: error: VT-x is being used by another hypervisor (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE).
    VBoxManage: error: VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot
    (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE)
    VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole

This is because another virtualizer (like KVM) are in use. We must blacklist
these in order for VirtualBox to run correctly.

First find out the name of the virtualizer:

    $ lsmod | grep kvm
    kvm_intel             204800  6
    kvm                   593920  1 kvm_intel
    irqbypass              16384  1 kvm

The one we're interested in is `kvm_intel`. You might have another.

Blacklist the virtualizer (run the following as root):

    # echo 'blacklist kvm-intel' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Restart your machine and try running vagrant again.