I am setting up a Ubuntu 15.04 VM on Win7 using Vagrant 1.7.4 and VBox 5.0.0.
On the first vagrant up I can ssh into the machine using vagrant putty and everything is setup correctly and works. When I run vagrant halt, the VM shuts down gracefully without error messages.
However, when I try to restart the VM using vagrant up; vagrant putty, the machine is in a strange state. For example, the default synced folder /vagrant is empty, even though the second vagrant up call prints this message:
default: /vagrant => C:/Users/ArneUser/numecs/dev_env
Also, this vagrant up call prints the following message in PowerShell:
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!
/sbin/initctl emit --no-wait vagrant-mounted MOUNTPOINT=
Stdout from the command:
Stderr from the command:
stdin: is not a tty
bash: line 2: /sbin/initctl: No such file or directory
I am running a really basic setup just to test for this error, so I don't think the mistake is in my provisioning script. Some pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.
Open VirtualBox GUI and turn off machine manually, then run again the vagrant up command.
That solved the problem in my case :)
/vagrant is empty
/sbin/initctl emit --no-wait vagrant-mounted MOUNTPOINT=
From these two lines I suspect that MOUNTPOINT should be /vagrant but its due to /vagrant being empty that SSH is now working.
I've seen similar issues because of Virtualbox 5.
Try to downgrade Virtualbox to 4.3.x and ensure you have the latest Vagrant (1.7.4).
https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/5572
Initctl is part of the Upstart init daemon. As far as I'm aware Ubuntu 15.04 is the first version of Ubuntu to abandon Upstart in favor of SystemD, so /sbin/initctl isn't expected to exist in your operating system. I believe this would need to be something that is fixed in the box you're using.
The point of "/sbin/initctl emit ..." is to notify other Upstart units that the vagrant shared folder has been mounted and is available for read/write operations. Since upstart is no longer in use it may be safe to assume that there is no need for this call. It's a rather crude hack, but you could make an empty script at /sbin/initctl. This should allow the vagrant startup process to continue properly and provision your box.
In my case it seems as Marc Young suggested that by opening Virtualbox GUI, the virtual machine itself seems to be hung. I saw these error messages on the virtual box console:
Thus it seems to not to be Vagrant related problem, but the virtual machine (Linux Kernel) itself seems to be hung.
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 was using Vagrant under Windows 10 Pro first with Virtualbox provider and created a few boxes. Then because I wanted to test Docker for Win, I had to switch to Hyper V and uninstall Virtualbox. After some time I manually deleted some Virtualbox machines or re-purposed the folders so they don't have Vagrantfile anymore in them.
When I try to run either
vagrant global-status --prune
or
vagrant destroy -f XXXYYYZZZ
I get this error:
The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine 'default' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason is shown below:
Vagrant could not detect VirtualBox! Make sure VirtualBox is properly installed. Vagrant uses the VBoxManage binary that ships with VirtualBox, and requires this to be available on the PATH. If VirtualBox is installed, please find the VBoxManage binary and add it to the PATH environmental variable.
I understand what Vagrant is trying to say: Install virtualbox binary so it can manage the boxes. But actually there are no VMs to begin with so it should be enough to delete it from registry and for that no Virtualbox is necessary. Is there a way how to remove cached boxes from registry in my case?
vagrant is keeping the list of machines it manages under the following location (that is for Mac, you would need to find for windows as I am not fully sure about the path)
~/.vagrant.d/data/machine-index
and under this folder, you'll find a index file that will list all machines it has in cache. its a JSon file and the provider for the machine is listed so you can remove anything that is not VirtualBox
I got the similar situation when I try to install Docker on my Windows 10 machine with vagrant + virtual box.
I have uninstalled virtual box, but the same error continues every time I try to run "vagrant up"
The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine
'default' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason
is shown below:
Vagrant could not detect VirtualBox! Make sure VirtualBox is properly
installed. Vagrant uses the VBoxManage binary that ships with
VirtualBox, and requires this to be available on the PATH. If
VirtualBox is installed, please find the VBoxManage binary and add
it to the PATH environmental variable.
So below process saved me from it.
step 1: Add below line in vagrantfile below line "config.vm.box"
config.vm.define "hyperv"
Step 2: start your vagrant box calling like below from powershell or cmd
vagrant up --provider=hyperv
It should work. I got the vagrant running after these steps.
It must be the provider which is saved as virtual box somewhere in cache or registry.enter code here
source: https://willmurphyscode.net/2017/01/16/a-very-simple-vagrant-deployment/
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.
I have Vagrant installed on my iMac but I would also like to install and run it on my MacBook. Is it possible to run the same Vagrant box across two Macs?
I have done a Vagrant up command within a shared Dropbox folder - so i'm guessing that all I need to do is install vagrant on the second mac and then navigate to the Dropbox shared folder and do vagrant up.
Would this work?
Known solution:
ssh to the host machine
user#MacBook: ssh user#imac
then vagrant up; vagrant ssh.
user#imac: vagrant up; vagrant ssh
vagrant#vagrantvm:
This would be the most straight forward way I can think of.
Another option:
RDP to imac and run vagrant up;vagrant ssh as normal
Yet another option:
If your vagrant file is complete enough you should be able to vagrant up on any host to give you the same vagrant env. This relies on your use case but is how I use vagrant.
Vagrant stores the state of the machine and machine id inside the .vagrant folder. The running machine (vm) itself is handled by virtualbox/vmware or any provider your using. Lets say the virtualbox box is stored somewhere else on your system and referenced by Vagrant.
If you access the folder from two systems your basically remote controlling two different machine on two different systems. Not a good solution. Furthermore, you will run into problems if the states are different, e.g. its "up" on system one but "destroyed" on system two.
Additionally to the above solutions I propose the following:
Vagrant Share! Enable Vagrant http-/ssh-Share between your systems.
Vagrant machines should be repeatable and destroyable. Therefore, put your Vagrantfile under version control and checkout on the two systems.
Configure your provider to store the box itself on the dropbox.
I just deleted a large directory that I no longer needed. Unfortunately, it had a number of vagrant instances that I neglected to halt and destroy first within it and I'm having trouble getting them to go away now.
If I run "vagrant global-status", I receive four results, all have the name "default", three use hyperv and one uses virtualbox (not sure why I have a virtualbox instance at all), all but the virtualbox is running, and all in directories that no longer exist.
I just opened up the hyper-v manager and none of these instances actually exist.
If I attempt to use "vagrant destroy" against any of the ids in the global-status output, I get the following error:
There are errors in the configuration of this machine. Please fix the following errors and try again:
vm:
* A box must be specified
If I look in the "vagrant box list" command, it yields a single named box, but I don't appear to be able to do anything with it as I'll get the same error as above when I attempt to remove it.
What can I do to 1) get rid of the last of the directories that wouldn't delete since vagrant appears to be using the files and 2) clear out these entries that shouldn't be here anymore from the vagrant global-status command?
Thanks!
To clean Vagrant's global status, use the --prune flag.
I'm not sure why you don't see the Hyper-V machines in your Hyper-V manager though.
I wound up uninstalling Vagrant and deleting the directories Vagrant was using. Then I re-installed and there were no more ghost Vagrant instances.
I managed to remove the vagrant VM entry from global-status using vagrant destroy <id> after I manually deleted the VM from "Oracle VM VirtualBox". VM was ubuntu 14.04, host was windows 10.