# Vagrant plugins

This tutorial explains to you what a Vagrant plugin is and how to use it.

# What a Vagrant plugin is ?

Vagrant comes with many great features out of the box to get your environments up and running. Sometimes, however, you want to change the way Vagrant does something or add additional functionality to Vagrant. This can be done via Vagrant plugins.

# How to use Vagrant plugins

Here are some commands used for Vagrant plugins:

vagrant plugin list : You can see all plugins installed

vagrant plugin install <plugin name> : Install a Vagrant plugin

vagrant-vbguest is the plugin which automatically installs the host's VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest system. More information about vagrant-vbguest plugin you can find here.

Other available plugins you can get from https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/wiki/Available-Vagrant-Plugins.

If you want to update the plugin, you can run the command vagrant plugin update <plugin-name> :

The command vagrant plugin uninstall <plugin-name> uninstall a specific plugin: