diff --git a/contrib/vagrant/README.md b/contrib/vagrant/README.md
index 6f9bd5df..860e793a 100644
--- a/contrib/vagrant/README.md
+++ b/contrib/vagrant/README.md
@@ -45,3 +45,6 @@ the definition of the Virtual Machine spawned:
 
  * **VAGRANT\_KURYR\_VM\_MEMORY**: To modify the RAM of the VM. Defaulted to: 4096
  * **VAGRANT\_KURYR\_VM\_CPU**: To modify the cpus of the VM. Defaulted to: 2
+ * **VAGRANT\_KURYR\_RUN\_DEVSTACK**: Whether `vagrant up` should run devstack to
+   have an environment ready to use. Set it to 'false' if you want to edit
+   `local.conf` before run ./stack.sh manually in the VM. Defaulted to: true
diff --git a/contrib/vagrant/Vagrantfile b/contrib/vagrant/Vagrantfile
index d8fc4405..5167e8aa 100644
--- a/contrib/vagrant/Vagrantfile
+++ b/contrib/vagrant/Vagrantfile
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
 
-  VM_MEMORY = ENV.fetch('VAGRANT_KURYR_VM_MEMORY', 4096)
-  VM_CPUS   = ENV.fetch('VAGRANT_KURYR_VM_CPUS', 2)
+  VM_MEMORY    = ENV.fetch('VAGRANT_KURYR_VM_MEMORY', 4096)
+  VM_CPUS      = ENV.fetch('VAGRANT_KURYR_VM_CPUS', 2)
+  RUN_DEVSTACK = ENV.fetch('VAGRANT_KURYR_RUN_DEVSTACK', 'true')
 
   config.vm.hostname = 'devstack'
 
@@ -33,7 +34,10 @@ Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
   # For CentOS machines it needs to be specified
   config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant'
 
-  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => 'vagrant.sh'
+  config.vm.provision :shell do |s|
+    s.path = 'vagrant.sh'
+    s.args = RUN_DEVSTACK
+  end
 
   if Vagrant.has_plugin?('vagrant-cachier')
     config.cache.scope = :box
diff --git a/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh b/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh
index 32119e93..7440d77f 100755
--- a/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh
+++ b/contrib/vagrant/devstack.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 set -e
 
 BASHPATH=$(dirname "$0"\")
+RUN_DEVSTACK="$1"
 echo "Run script from $BASHPATH"
 
 # Copied shamelessly from Devstack
@@ -47,6 +48,9 @@ then
 
 fi
 
-# start devstack
-echo "Start Devstack"
-su "$OS_USER" -c "cd $DEVSTACK && ./stack.sh"
+if $RUN_DEVSTACK; then
+  echo "Start Devstack"
+  su "$OS_USER" -c "cd $DEVSTACK && ./stack.sh"
+else
+  echo "Virtual Machine ready. You can run devstack by executing '/home/vagrant/devstack/stack.sh'"
+fi
diff --git a/contrib/vagrant/vagrant.sh b/contrib/vagrant/vagrant.sh
index b0c2b0bd..f56aaa2c 100755
--- a/contrib/vagrant/vagrant.sh
+++ b/contrib/vagrant/vagrant.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ export OS_USER=vagrant
 export OS_HOST_IP=172.68.5.10
 
 # run script
-bash /vagrant/devstack.sh
+bash /vagrant/devstack.sh "$1"
 
 #set environment variables for kuryr
 su "$OS_USER" -c "echo 'source /vagrant/config/kuryr_rc' >> ~/.bashrc"