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<h1 id="additional-box-information">  Additional Box Information </h1> <p>When creating a Vagrant box, you can supply additional information that might be relevant to the user when running <code>vagrant box list -i</code>. For example, you could package your box to include information about the author of the box and a website for users to learn more:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight plaintext">brian@localghost % vagrant box list -i
hashicorp/precise64     (virtualbox, 1.0.0)
  - author: brian
  - homepage: https://www.vagrantup.com
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<h2 id="box-info">  Box Info </h2> <p>To accomplish this, you simply need to include a file named <code>info.json</code> when creating a <a href="base">base box</a> which is a JSON document containing any and all relevant information that will be displayed to the user when the <code>-i</code> option is used with <code>vagrant box list</code>.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight json" data-language="json">{
 "author": "brian",
 "homepage": "https://example.com"
}
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<p>There are no special keys or values in <code>info.json</code>, and Vagrant will print each key and value on its own line.</p> <p>The <a href="format">Box File Format</a> provides more information about what else goes into a Vagrant box.</p><div class="_attribution">
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