If you already have a Drupal codebase on your host machine (e.g. in ~/Sites/my-drupal-site), and don't want or need to build your Drupal site with a Drush make file, make the following changes to config.yml before building Drupal VM:

Sync your Drupal codebase to the VM¶

Update the vagrant_synced_folders configuration to sync your local Drupal codebase to a folder within the machine:

vagrant_synced_folders:
  - local_path: ~/Sites/my-drupal-site
    destination: /var/www/my-drupal-site
    type: nfs

Disable the Drush make build and site install¶

Set build_makefile and install_site to false:

build_makefile:: false
...
install_site: false

If you aren't copying back a database, and want to have Drupal VM run drush si for your Drupal site, you can leave install_site set to true and it will run a site install on your Drupal codebase using the drupal_* config variables.

Update drupal_core_path¶

Set drupal_core_path to the same value as the destination of the synced folder you configured earlier:

drupal_core_path: "/var/www/my-drupal-site"

This variable will be used for the document root of the webserver.

Set the domain¶

By default the domain of your site will be drupalvm.dev but you can change it by setting drupal_domain to the domain of your choice:

drupal_domain: "local.my-drupal-site.com"

If you prefer using your domain as the root of all extra packages installed, ie. adminer, xhprof and pimpmylog, set it as the value of vagrant_hostname instead.

vagrant_hostname: "my-drupal-site.com"

apache_vhosts:
  # Resolves to http://my-drupal-site.com/
  - servername: "{{ drupal_domain }}"
    documentroot: "{{ drupal_core_path }}"
    extra_parameters: |
          ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ "fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000{{ drupal_core_path }}"

  # Resolves to http://adminer.my-drupal-site.com/
  - servername: "adminer.{{ vagrant_hostname }}"
    documentroot: "{{ adminer_install_dir }}"
    extra_parameters: |
          ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php(/.*)?)$ "fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000{{ adminer_install_dir }}"

Update MySQL info¶

If you have your Drupal site configured to use a special database and/or user/password for local development (e.g. through a settings.local.php file), you can update the values for mysql_databases and mysql_users as well.

Build the VM, import your database¶

Run vagrant up to build the VM with your codebase synced into the proper location. Once the VM is created, you can connect to the MySQL database and import your site's database to the Drupal VM, or use a command like drush sql-sync to copy a database from another server.