basline can be used to prepare systems in the Rackspace (or potentially other environments) for following vagrant layers. While the base image that is looked for is 'Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) (PVHVM)' which is no longer even offered, the variable is being left in place so to prompt selection of a proper base image to spin up against. This is controlled by the RSIMAGE environment variable ex: $ RSIMAGE='CentOS 7 (PVHVM)' vagrant up --provider=rackspace This vagrant will just set the instance up at the most basic to be Vagrant capable and also SELinux enforcing. It will then "reseal" itself and state the the system is ready for imaging. Any further RackSpace specific Vagrant definitions will expect a base system of the form "$DISTRO - Vagrant ready" for the base image name ex: Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) - Vagrant ready or CentOS 7 - Vagrant ready NOTE: The reseal operation _destroys_ the SSH keys that were used to bring the Vagrant system up effectively making the system unable to perform SSH based logins again. This is intentional. If you are bringing up an Ubuntu system you _must_ also set RSPTY='default' or the bring up will hang indefinitely during the OS upgrade phase.