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
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 am trying to set up vagrant for kong. I have installed VirtualBox and vagrant. But when i run 'vgrant up' i encounter the below issue:
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.
Command: ["list", "hostonlyifs"]
Stderr: VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154) - Class not registered (extended info not available)
I have searched for this error with no much luck.
I am using centos 7.4 and the kernel version is 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.
I have downloaded the relevant gcc, devel and dkms. In short followed the link https://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-virtualbox-on-centos-redhat-and-fedora/
Any tip is appreciated.
Thanks
Dinah
This is most likely a problem with your VirtualBox install, not Vagrant. To confirm this, you should receive the same error when running: VBoxManage list vms
A common reason for this error are when /tmp is full or has the incorrect permissions.
To check if /tmp is full try df -h
To fix permissions on /tmp if they're incorrect, try sudo chmod ug-s /tmp && sudo rm -rf /tmp/.vbox*
Apparently we were trying this on a VM. And Vagrant tries to spin up another VM. So having a VM spun within a VM is causing the issue.
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
I am having a hard time getting Vagrant to work on Windows 10. Here is what I have done so far:
Installed Git 2.7.4
Installed VirtualBox 5.0.16
Installed Vagrant 1.8.1
I want a pre-configured Apache / PHP box, so I am using 'Scotch Box' (https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-box). I have cloned the repo and ran vagrant up from the Git Bash prompt.
This successfully created and booted up the VM, however there was a few errors during the process:
Installing the Window System drivers
Could not find the X.Org or XFree86 Window System, skipping.
An error occurred during installation of VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.16
Some functionality may not work as intended.
In most cases it is OK that the "Window System drivers" installation failed.
After this I ran vagrant ssh, this presented me with the Ubuntu intro screen.
I then tried to access the IP address http://192.168.33.10 in my browser, as suggested. However this just brings up a 404 Not Found page. I then ran curl localhost:80 within the VM, this also outputs the same 404 page.
What exactly is going on and how can I diagnose this further? I am not too familiar with Unix so could do with some help.
The error you listed in your question:
Installing the Window System drivers
Could not find the X.Org or XFree86 Window System, skipping.
An error occurred during installation of VirtualBox Guest Additions 5.0.16
Some functionality may not work as intended.
In most cases it is OK that the "Window System drivers" installation failed.
Is actually from a Vagrant plugin, vagrant-vbguest in my experience - which is trying to match your Guest Additions version to your virtualbox version. It is usually harmless.
More to your question, I see a few questions a week about people having issues with the scotchbox. If all you need is apache2 and php5, why not just init a trusty box and install apache2 and php5 packages?
vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64
Add the following to your Vagrantfile:
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y apache2 php5
SHELL
You will also need to enable a network type in your Vagrantfile, so you can access the box from your Host (and browser). Choose one of the below to UNCOMMENT (remove the #) from the generated Vagrantfile:
# config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
or
# config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
Run vagrant up and you can access your webserver at http://192.168.33.10 or http://localhost:8080, depending on which networking option you went with.
I found out what the problem was after some Googling.
I had a look at the 000-default.conf file in the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory. In here it had the DocumentRoot set as /var/www/public.
So all I had to do was create a new folder called public on my host machine and put all my website files in there.
When starting my vagrant box with a small 15MB Busybox image, the first time I get an error during the phase
Mounting shared folders...
It seems vagrant is trying something with sudo, which isn't istalled. I get this error:
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!
mkdir -p /vagrant
Stdout from the command:
Stderr from the command:
ash: sudo: not found
It works so far, I can login as root with the password vagrant, but I guess this is not perfect?
This is my setup: https://github.com/rubo77/ffnord-example/blob/pyddhcpd/Vagrantfile
config.ssh.username = 'root'
config.ssh.password = 'vagrant'
config.ssh.insert_key = 'true'
config.ssh.shell = 'ash'
(0..9).each do |i|
config.vm.define "gc-node0#{i}" do |node|
end
end
By default vagrant share/sync the directory /vagrant (guest) with the current project directory, the one containing the Vagrantfile (host), more directories can be shared using config.vm.synced_folder, I don't know if the default /vagrant can be disabled.
If you aren't using the shared directories feature then the missing sudo isn't a problem.
If your filesystem is writeable you can create the /vagrant directory once, so on next up vagrant shouldn't try to sudo mkdir again;
but assuming you're using VirtualBox (I don't know about others emulator behavior/architecture) you'll face another problem, shared directories require the kernel modules vboxsf and vboxguest (from VirtualBox Guest Additions) to be built (against the running kernel sources) and loaded (insmod), and the command mount.vboxsf to be built and installed in /sbin, plus your busybox require the option mount helpers enabled because vagrant use mount -t vboxsf and not mount.vboxsf directly, when vagrant try to mount the shared directories and those requirements aren't matched there is a long timeout before failing with error (a minute/two or more).
Notice that busybox (current stable) support sudo, is just disabled by default.
If you're building the buildroot yourself from sources I can tell that the shared feature works (I managed to get an image with busybox to work as vagrant expect), if you're using some pre-built kernel/busybox... may be a problem, you have to find matching binaries for vboxsf, vboxguest, mount.vboxsf and if the mount helpers option is disabled in your busybox you need to find a workaround (perhaps modifying vagrant to use mount.vboxsf).