The first time, run: vagrant up
This downloads the Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 image from internets and boots it.
vagrant ssh
sudo su
This makes you the root user. You'll need to modify the instructions in the Readme for vagrant. You won't need to rsync since the local directory is available at /var/chef
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Any changes you make locally are immediately available available in the VM
vagrant halt
To test that the changes are working properly, you'll want to start with a bare box every now and then. vagrant destroy