I'm trying to install the last laravel homestead.
After cloning the repo into ~/Homestead and launch vagrant up.
I have this error :
==> homestead-7: Mounting shared folders...
homestead-7: /vagrant => C:/Users/fboland/Homestead
Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders. This is usually
because the filesystem "vboxsf" is not available. This filesystem is
made available via the VirtualBox Guest Additions and kernel module.
Please verify that these guest additions are properly installed in the
guest. This is not a bug in Vagrant and is usually caused by a faulty
Vagrant box. For context, the command attempted was:
mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 vagrant /vagrant
The error output from the command was:
: No such file or directory
But the folder realy exists !
Any idea ?
Thanks
If you are using VirtualBox 5.1.16 (the latest at the time of writing this), you will have to downgrade to VirtualBox 5.1.14 as there is an issue with the version of Guest Additions in this release.
More information in this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/issues/510
Installing the vbguest plugin worked in my case with VirtualBox 5.2.6 and Vagrant 2.0.2:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
Related
I know that other people during the years had met similar problems (like this ) however in my case the guest addition is installed (0.30.0 version) and I tried to reinstall it a lot of times.
I work on Windows10 and those are the version of VirtualBox and Virtual Machine.
Virtualbox on your host claims: 5.2.8
VBoxService inside the vm claims: 6.1.22
This is the code of the problem:
default: /vagrant => C:/Users/XXXX XXXX/Documents/src
Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders. This is usually
because the filesystem "vboxsf" is not available. This filesystem is
made available via the VirtualBox Guest Additions and kernel module.
Please verify that these guest additions are properly installed in the
guest. This is not a bug in Vagrant and is usually caused by a faulty
Vagrant box. For context, the command attempted was:
mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000,_netdev vagrant /vagrant
The error output from the command was:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument
I never found the error Invalid argument in similar cases so my question is if this need a particular procedure.
Thank you very much
Just had a similar problem after an update - was getting the same:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument
What I found in virtualbox startup was the message:
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Kernel headers not found for target kernel
5.4.0-81-generic. Please install them and execute
/sbin/rcvboxadd setup
Used "vagrant ssh" to access the virtualbox command line and ran:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
After that restarted vagrant:
vagrant halt
vagrant up
Then it actually built the VirtualBox Guest Additions properly and mounted my shared folders.
Had the same exact error as you after making my second vagrant project - specifically after changing my public_network setting.
mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000,_netdev vagrant /vagrant
The error output from the command was:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Invalid argument
At I also tried several solutions from people's answers like the one mentioned here and updated my VirtualBox.
I'm not really sure how mine works but here's what I did:
I logged into the VM (vagrant ssh) and installed the guest additions manually
cd /opt
sudo wget -c
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.26/VBoxGuestAdditions_6.1.26.iso O VBoxGuestAdditions_6.1.26.iso
And then tried:
sudo mount VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.28.iso -o loop /mnt
sudo sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
But I got an error saying something like permission denied or no directory.
So I reload vagrant (vagrant reload), but the error still occurred. However, I still continued trying something else, so I thought maybe I should install the vbguest plugin and did this:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
That removed the error for me after reload but when I logged into vagrant again, I still can't see my shared folders so I halted my vb and run provision:
vagrant up --provision
Then I got a message which said that there was an error while executing VBoxManage so on and so forth. So I paused all running machine in my VB, closed all running VB apps in my desktop, and run the command:
vagrant destroy
After recreating vagrant vagrant up, everything miraculously worked! I can now navigate to my shared folders' directory.
I'm still in the process of learning vagrant so I can't really explain what actually happened in my machine but I hope this can somehow be of help to you or to someone who have the same issue.
Step 1: open virtual box then right click on installation machine then ->close->power off.
Step 2: then run below command
vagrant halt
vagrant up
Finally got it working the following way (this related answer was of great help along with Paul_Z's answer in this same question).
Step 1:
Make sure VirtualBox Guest Additions Software is installed.
If this solved your Issue, then great! If not, continue on to step 2.
Step 2:
Read the VirtualBox Guest Additions installation output carefully.
(If no longer possible, you can rerun the setup by using cd to go to
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-*your-version-number-here*/init/
and then run:
sudo ./vboxadd setup)
Step 3:
Install the needed dependencies with the distribution's package manager that the error message shows. (In my particular case, it mentioned that the system couldn't perform kernel module builds because gcc make and perl were not present in the system).
Step 4:
Rerun the VirtualBox Guest Additions setup by going to
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-*your-version-number-here*/init/
and then run:
sudo ./vboxadd setup
(If more dependencies are requested, go back to step 3)
Step 5: Reboot
Step 6 (Optional):
Add user to vboxsf group so that it is able to access the shared folder if needed. (As explained in this answer).
sudo usermod -G vboxsf -a your_user_name
I have the issue i Ubuntu 20.04 and simply download a more recent version of VirtualBox, then extract the GuestAditions ISO and installed it
I ran just
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
and after this the box came up.
I have scoured the internet up and down for this issue and always consider asking here a last resort. That being said if this has been asked and solved before please point me in the right direction.
I am using Virtualbox 5.1.22 on macOS Sierra 10.12.5 with vagrant version 1.9.6
Yesterday I upgraded my homestead box from version 2.0.0 to 2.1.0. I only upgraded after running vagrant up and it did its thing and was fine until I come in today and turn my machine one and try booting up the vagrant machine again. I get the following error at the end of the normal stuff:
Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders. This is usually
because the filesystem "vboxsf" is not available. This filesystem is
made available via the VirtualBox Guest Additions and kernel module.
Please verify that these guest additions are properly installed in the
guest. This is not a bug in Vagrant and is usually caused by a faulty
Vagrant box. For context, the command attempted was:
mount -t vboxsf -o uid=900,gid=900 vagrant /vagrant
The error output from the command was:
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
I have tried vagrant reload, vagrant halt and then vagrant up, restarting the machine and re-running, vagrant reload --provision
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
EDIT: Why the downvote? This seems like a perfectly reasonable question?
The box comes with VirtualBox Guest Addition for a given version of VirtualBox, which is not the one you're running on your host.
what you need to do is update the Guest Additions in your guest VM to the same version of VirtualBox that you run on your host machine.
The easy way as mentioned in my comments is to use the vagrant vbguest plugin, it will compare the version from your host and guest software and will automatically aligned if needed. I find it pretty convenient and there are options to disable the update if you need.
In case you do not want to run an additional plugin, you can make the update on the guest VM manually.
You will need to download the Guest Addition for the same version of your VirtualBox (5.1.22 in your case) and follow the instructions to install
So I found and installed this: https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest
I have no idea why I need a plugin now when it was working just fine before updating but hey...it works.
Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders. This is usually
because the filesystem "vboxsf" is not available. This filesystem is
made available via the VirtualBox Guest Additions and kernel module.
Please verify that these guest additions are properly installed in the
guest. This is not a bug in Vagrant and is usually caused by a faulty
Vagrant box. For context, the command attempted was:
id -u nginx
The error output from the command was:
id: nginx: no such user
Vagrant version : 1.9.1
Virtualbox version : 5.1.14
Already tried this and it didn't worked:
sudo ln -s /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.10/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions
ln: /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions: File exists
I just downloaded virtualbox, installed centos and development tools.
I also installed vagrant and installed it, in windows 7.
It says in the vagrant page, you can install vagrant in virtualbox using
$ vagrant init hashicorp/precise32
$ vagrant up
But, I am getting vagrant command not found Are they supposed to be installed inside one another? because, if I download/install them separately, I don't know how my virtualbox could even understand the vagrant command.
Vagrant and VirtualBox are entirely separate. Vagrant uses VirtualBox by calling VBoxManage commands. Both vagrant and vboxmanage binaries need to be on your system PATH variable.
In Windows you can check and adjust the PATH as shown here: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
I just installed Vagrant 1.4.3 on Windows 7 64-bit and created an Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) box using the following:
vagrant box add saucy64-20140226 http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/saucy/20140226/saucy-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box
vagrant init saucy64-20140226
After doing:
vagrant up
I SSH'ed to the vagrant box using Putty. Up to this point is fine, but when I do:
$ ls
in the /vagrant directory (on the Guest), I do not see my 'Vagrantfile' or any other files from the Host machine.
Also, any files created in the Guest's /vagrant directory do not show up in the Host's synced directory.
I noticed the following when the box/vm was starting up:
[default] The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed
version of VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases
it can prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If
you see shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions
within the virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have
installed on your host and reload your VM.
After researching a little more, found that the following solves the issue:
https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest
Here's a more detailed post:
http://kvz.io/blog/2013/01/16/vagrant-tip-keep-virtualbox-guest-additions-in-sync/
Thanks very much to the folks who created the 'vagrant-vbguest' Vagrant plugin!!!