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+# KorAP-Vagrant
+
+A Vagrantfile for the KorAP Corpus Analysis Platform
+
+## Description
+
+A Vagrantfile provides all that is required to run KorAP
+in a virtual machine.
+
+## Setup
+
+As a prerequisite, you will need [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/)
+and [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/).
+
+To initially create the KorAP VM run
+
+```
+$ git clone https://github.com/KorAP/KorAP-Vagrant
+$ cd KorAP-Vagrant
+$ vagrant up
+```
+
+This will eventually download the VM image, start the VM and
+initialize the provision.
+Please be patient - the first provision will take quite some time.
+
+Afterwards you will have the KorAP user-interface available at
+```http://localhost:5555``` on your machine.
+The KorAP API will be available at
+```http://localhost:5556```.
+An example corpus as provided by [Kustvakt](https://github.com/KorAP/Kustvakt/)
+will be available as well.
+
+To update the software, simply run
+
+```
+$ git pull origin master
+$ vagrant provision
+```
+
+To stop the service, run
+
+```
+$ vagrant halt
+```
+
+To log into the machine, run
+
+$ vagrant ssh
+
+## Development and License
+
+Copyright (c) 2018, [IDS Mannheim](http://ids-mannheim.de/), Germany
+
+KorAP-Vagrant is developed as part of the [KorAP](http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/)
+Corpus Analysis Platform at the Institute for German Language
+([IDS](http://ids-mannheim.de/)),
+funded by the
+[Leibniz-Gemeinschaft](http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/about-us/leibniz-competition/projekte-2011/2011-funding-line-2/).
+
+KorAP-Vagrant is published under the
+[BSD-2 License](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KorAP/KorAP-Vagrant/master/LICENSE).