Setting “Paravirtualization Interface” in Vagrantfile

Question

VirtualBox 5 exposes a setting called \"Paravirtualization Interface\" that can improve performance for some specific guest operating systems.

Is there a way to set this

Answer 1

My Vagrantfile did not have a vb.customize section (maybe the accepted answer uses older format (?)). Based on https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/virtualbox/configuration.html and https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html (search for --nictype) the following worked for me. I did not need to set KVM explicitely, because I was on Linux and it was the default.

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

    config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
    config.vm.hostname = "whatever"

    config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
        vb.memory = "512"
        vb.cpus = "2"
        vb.default_nic_type = "virtio"
    end
end

By setting this default_nic_type to virtio, not only the first NAT-ed NIC got this type, but also I defined a second NIC (not shown here) and it also got created as virtio (virtio-net in virtualbox settings GUI).