diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82eacf74..3b255eb1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -61,3 +61,4 @@ mydbstub.py*
 /unittests/lib_pubsub_provider_actual.py
 
 ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg-console.log
+ubuntu-bionic-18.04-cloudimg-console.log
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index 518012b1..dd5ff26f 100755
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -1520,6 +1520,7 @@ def cmd_build_vagrant(options, args):
                 'fedora-27    all gtk3', # no webkitgtk for gtk2??
                 'ubuntu-14.04 all all',
                 'ubuntu-16.04 all all',
+                'ubuntu-18.04 all all',
                 ]
     elif options.vagrant_vms == 'none':
         VMs = [] # to skip building anything and just upload
diff --git a/vagrant/ubuntu-18.04/Vagrantfile b/vagrant/ubuntu-18.04/Vagrantfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b4ebb7a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vagrant/ubuntu-18.04/Vagrantfile
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# -*- mode: ruby -*-
+# vi: set ft=ruby :
+
+Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
+
+  # Set which Vagrant "box" (base image) to use, and tell it how to set up the
+  # VM, packages to install, etc.
+  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
+  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
+
+  # Additional parameters for the VM
+  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
+      vb.memory = 4096
+      vb.cpus = 4
+  end
+
+  # Share the Phoenix/dist folder so the VM can get the source tarball and has
+  # a place to put the build results.
+  config.vm.synced_folder "../../dist", "/home/vagrant/dist"
+
+  # And share a folder with the build script
+  config.vm.synced_folder "../scripts", "/home/vagrant/scripts"
+
+end
diff --git a/vagrant/ubuntu-18.04/bootstrap.sh b/vagrant/ubuntu-18.04/bootstrap.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..31ad9361
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vagrant/ubuntu-18.04/bootstrap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Set up and update package repos
+#add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa  ## Not yet available for bionic
+apt-get update
+
+# Install necessary development tools, libs, etc.
+apt-get install -y build-essential dpkg-dev
+apt-get install -y aptitude mc
+
+apt-get install -y libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev
+apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev \
+	libsdl1.2-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev \
+	libnotify-dev freeglut3 freeglut3-dev libsm-dev \
+	libwebkitgtk-dev libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev
+
+
+# Install all available Python packages and their dev packages
+apt-get install -y python2.7 python2.7-dev libpython2.7-dev python-virtualenv
+##apt-get install -y python3.5 python3.5-dev libpython3.5-dev python3.5-venv
+apt-get install -y python3.6 python3.6-dev libpython3.6-dev python3.6-venv
+
+# Set up virtual environments for each Python where the Phoenix builds will be
+# done. set them to the vagrant user so the venv's can be updated by pip later.
+mkdir venvs
+virtualenv --python=python2.7 venvs/Py27
+##python3.5 -m venv venvs/Py35
+python3.6 -m venv venvs/Py36
+
+chown -R vagrant:vagrant venvs
+