&gt; `vagrant up` times will be much faster and the amount of disk space used will be significantly reduced. As an anecdotal measure, a small Linux box on my machine went from a 10 second import to less than second. And a Windows box (typically very large) went from a 40 second import also to less than a second.<p>I tried this, but it does not seem faster to me. All my projects set up on vagrant from halted state (`vagrant halt`) to up (`vagrant up`) take same amount of time as it was with `vagrant 1.7`.<p>Or I am doing&#x2F;understand this wrong?