Getting vm clone and local ansible configured took some time, but now provisioning seems to work quite fast. Great!<p>I&#x27;d like to find a way to get Ubuntu to boot faster and Vagrant waiting unnecessarily long for the machine to become available. Judging by VirtualBox console, Vagrant could notice machine readiness a few seconds faster. Also, for a virtual environment 10 secs or more for startup seems a little excessive.<p>Though this bit is not necessary Vagrant specific...<p>Looking forward to using the new snapshot functionality to test my Ansible scripts in isolation.<p>Also, looking through these bits I found this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;juanje&#x2F;3797297" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;juanje&#x2F;3797297</a><p>I noticed that for repeatedly installing same packages, like when debugging provisioning, using apt cache on host machine&#x27;s synced folder speeds up the process immensely.