It&#x27;s unfortunate that they announced Otto as the &quot;successor to Vagrant&quot; when in reality it seems Vagrant and Otto solve different, albeit related problems. Otto seems like it&#x27;s solving the high level issues, to introduce a sort of hive-mind conformity; whereas Vagrant solves the issue of efficiently automating the creation of specific environments. It makes sense then that Otto uses Vagrant to achieve it&#x27;s goal, but it&#x27;s a bit confusing to call it a &quot;successor&quot; then. Vagrant is a great piece of tooling, and it&#x27;s good to see that it lives on despite confusing messaging.<p>Just reading this announcement, it seems 1.8 is an amazing release. The linked clones by the sounds of it seems like it&#x27;ll solve on of the major issues I&#x27;ve had with Vagrant. Additionally, this little nugget is hidden under minor features, but should really have a heading of its own:<p>&gt; Vagrant now automatically installs VirtualBox for a smoother getting started experience on Mac OS X and Windows.<p>Awesome, kudos!