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Re:Vagrant 1.8 released by mitchellh on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:17PM (#10778924)
"SudoAlex" adjacent has the correct answer. We'll make it default at some point in 1.8.x. We decided last minute to remove the default so that any bugs that are found can be flushed out. So far, none on this feature. But yeah, you have to enable it.

After you enable it, you'll have to `vagrant destroy` before you see the benefits though. Linked clones are from scratch.

Re:Vagrant 1.8 released by phamilton on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:31PM (#10779017)
The announcement is a bit misleading then:

> Linked cloning will happen automatically if your system supports it. Providers other than VirtualBox and VMware can be updated outside of Vagrant to support linked cloning automatically.