Update provision.py and Vagrantfile to support VMWare.

This adds support for using VMWare Fusion as the Vagrant provider,
which has better performance than Virtualbox at the price of being
nonfree (in all senses of the term).

We haven't done solid benchmarking as to how much faster it is than
the Virtualbox provider.

Vagrantfile

@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
     vb.cpus = 2
   end
 
+  config.vm.provider "vmware_fusion" do |vb, override|
+    override.vm.box = "puphpet/ubuntu1404-x64"
+    vb.vmx["memsize"] = "2048"
+    vb.vmx["numvcpus"] = "2"
+  end
+
 $provision_script = <<SCRIPT
 set -x
 set -e

docs/brief-install-vagrant-dev.md

@@ -31,13 +31,11 @@ such as Mac via Virtualbox (but everything will be 2-3x slower).
   LXC installation instructions][vagrant-lxc] to get Vagrant with LXC
   for your platform.
 
-* If your host is OS X or older Linux, [download VirtualBox][vbox-dl],
-  [download Vagrant][vagrant-dl], and install them both.
-
-* If you're on OS X and have VMWare, it should be possible to patch
-  Vagrantfile to use the VMWare vagrant provider which should perform
-  much better than Virtualbox.  Patches to do this by default if
-  VMWare is available are welcome!
+* If your host is OS X or older Linux, [download Vagrant][vagrant-dl]
+  and [VirtualBox][vbox-dl].  Or, instead of Virtualbox you can use
+  [VMWare Fusion][vmware-fusion-dl] with the [VMWare vagrant
+  provider][vagrant-vmware-fusion-dl] for a nonfree option with better
+  performance.
 
 * On Windows: You can use Vagrant and Virtualbox/VMWare on Windows
   with Cygwin, similar to the Mac setup.  Be sure to create your git
@@ -48,6 +46,8 @@ such as Mac via Virtualbox (but everything will be 2-3x slower).
 [vagrant-dl]: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
 [vagrant-lxc]: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc
 [vbox-dl]: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
+[vmware-fusion-dl]: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html
+[vagrant-vmware-fusion-dl]: https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware/
 [avoiding-sudo]: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc#avoiding-sudo-passwords
 
 Once that's done, simply change to your zulip directory and run

docs/dev-env-first-time-contributors.md

@@ -61,8 +61,11 @@ Jump to:
 
 #### OS X
 
-1. Install [VirtualBox][vbox-dl]
-2. Install [Vagrant][vagrant-dl]
+1. Install [Vagrant][vagrant-dl]
+
+2. Install [VirtualBox][vbox-dl] or (for better performance;
+Virtualbox is quite slow) [VMWare Fusion][vmware-fusion-dl] with the
+[VMWare Fusion Vagrant plugin][vagrant-vmware-fusion-dl].
 
 Now you are ready for [Step 2: Get Zulip Code.](#step-2-get-zulip-code)
 
@@ -143,6 +146,8 @@ Now you are ready for [Step 2: Get Zulip Code.](#step-2-get-zulip-code)
 [vagrant-dl]: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
 [vagrant-lxc]: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc
 [vbox-dl]: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
+[vmware-fusion-dl]: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html
+[vagrant-vmware-fusion-dl]: https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware/
 [avoiding-sudo]: https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc#avoiding-sudo-passwords
 
 #### Windows 10

tools/provision.py

@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ else:
 
 # Ideally we wouldn't need to install a dependency here, before we
 # know the codename.
-subprocess.check_call(["sudo", "apt-get", "install", "-y", "lsb-release"])
+subprocess.check_call(["sudo", "apt-get", "update"])
+subprocess.check_call(["sudo", "apt-get", "install", "-y", "lsb-release", "software-properties-common"])
 vendor = subprocess_text_output(["lsb_release", "-is"])
 codename = subprocess_text_output(["lsb_release", "-cs"])
 if not (vendor in SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS and codename in SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS[vendor]):