Prerequisites

If you didn't install VirtualBox yet and don't have the analogue like VMWare, Hyper-V, etc. Download and install

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

For Windows 7 only

Open the PowerShell terminal and type

Get-Host | Select-Object Version

If the version of PowerShell you see is lower than 3.0 you may install it from here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595

or use this information:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19902239/how-to-upgrade-powershell-version-from-2-0-to-3-0

Start from here

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

Select your platform button, make sure architecture selected is 64-bits, press Download button. Install the package, say No for the reboot prompt after install (Windows)

Run the command in a Shell session (Mac/Linux Terminal, Windows PowerShell)

mkdir some_temp_directory For example: mkdir vagrant_temp_machine_config

cd some_temp_directory

vagrant init generic/alpine312

vagrant up

vagrant ssh

You're inside your Linux box. Enjoy!

Finish the work

Ctrl + D

vagrant halt

Caution! It deletes this new virtual machine, all its files (HDD image, settings, logs, etc). No other VMs, neither the VirtualBox itself is not deleted.

vagrant destroy

Now you can delete your some_temp_directory with the configuration