Quick Tip: Get a Homestead Vagrant VM Up and Running — SitePoint. This quick tip will help you get up and running with a brand new Homestead Improved Vagrant VM. to find out about Vagrant and why you should use it, see this post.Homestead Improved is based on Homestead, but has the added benefit of not forcing you to deal with SSH keys, doesn’t get installed globally, is more cross-platform friendly, and comes with a helper script to auto-configure the shared folders.I recommend creating a new Homestead Improved VM for every new project, and this tutorial will follow such a practice.
Prerequisites You need: The tutorial assumes you’ll be using a bash-like terminal; Git Bash if on Windows (comes with Git Tools).