rponte / vagrant-ubuntu-mssqlserver

Vagrant project to install MS SQL Server vNext CTP 1.1 on Linux Ubuntu 16.04

vagrant-ubuntu-mssqlserver

Vagrant project to install MS SQL Server vNext CTP 1.1 on Linux Ubuntu 16.04

Requirements

• You need to have Vagrant installed;
• You need to have VirtualBox installed;
• The host machine needs at least 6 GB of RAM, because SQL Server installation claims 4 GB of RAM;
• As SQL Server vNext is only available for 64-bit machines at the moment, the host machine needs to have a 64-bit architecture;
• You may need to enable virtualization manually;

Installation

• Check out this project:

    git clone [e-mail]:rponte/vagrant-ubuntu-mssqlserver.git
  

• Install vbguest:

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
  

• Install vagrant-proxyconf:

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf
  

• Run vagrant up from the base directory of this project. The first time this will take a while -- up to 30 minutes on my machine. Please note that building the VM involves downloading an Ubuntu 16.04 base box which is over 300MB in size;

Connecting

You should now be able to connect to the new database at localhost:1433 as sa with password vagrant@2017. You can connect to the SQL Server instance from outside the container by using various command line and GUI tools on the host or remote computers. See the Connect and Query topic in the SQL Server on Linux documentation.

Alternatives

You may also want to consider a Docker-based solution such as mssql-server-linux.