Unable to vagrant up - how to set "providers" - vagrant

I am trying run vagrant but after vagrant up error appears:
No usable default provider could be found for your system.
Vagrant relies on interactions with 3rd party systems, known as
"providers", to provide Vagrant with resources to run development
environments. Examples are VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V.
The easiest solution to this message is to install VirtualBox, which
is available for free on all major platforms.
If you believe you already have a provider available, make sure it
is properly installed and configured. You can see more details about
why a particular provider isn't working by forcing usage with
`vagrant up --provider=PROVIDER`, which should give you a more specific
error message for that particular provider.
I installed before VirtualBox version 4.3.26 r989888 and Linux Ubuntu (64 bit)
After:
vagrant box add precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
==> box: Adding box 'precise32' (v0) for provider:
box: Downloading: http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
box: Progress: 100% (Rate: 1425k/s, Estimated time remaining: --:--:--)
==> box: Successfully added box 'precise32' (v0) for 'virtualbox'!
when I list
vagrant box list
lucid32 (virtualbox, 0)
precise32 (virtualbox, 0)
What is wrong with "provider"
vagrant package --base vagrant-ubuntu64
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.
How to help him detect VirtualBox ?

Quick note - Vagrant 1.8.4 and Virtualbox 5.1.X aren't compatible on MacOS 10.11 (can't set a provider).
Virtualbox 5.0.10 works just fine.

I was able to fix this simply by installing the latest version of Vagrant (as of this writing 1.7.4).

simply try to bring vagrant up and specify provider you want to use:
vagrant up --provider virtualbox
As per screenshot below, it will tell you the reason why specified provider is not working. In my case, it was an unsupported version of VirtualBox 5.2. I had to downgrade it to v 5.1

There seems to have been an issue reported since VirtualBox 4.3.12:
VirtualBox automatically create the following environment variable VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH
However, vagrant (if you look for the base.rb file) uses the variable VBOX_INSTALL_PATH
So you can
- update the variable name VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH and change it to VBOX_INSTALL_PATH
- create a new variable name VBOX_INSTALL_PATH with the same value as VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH
Reminder on windows go to My Computer (right click) --> Properties --> Advanced System Settings --> Environment Variables and look for the variable you need to manage

ok so I was having the same issue with windows, vagrant and virtualbox and did this.
click on "This PC" / "My Computer" on windows desktop
Select "Properties"
Go to "Advanced" tab
Click "Environment Variables..." at the bottom
Under System Variables click "New..."
Set "Variable name" to "VBOX_INSTALL_PATH"
Set "Variable value" to "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
Select "OK" and close all the other settings windows
credit goes to here:
https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3852
I am assuming that there is a Environment Variable ( or PATH for linux users I think :P) that needs the "path" to the virtualbox executable.

I'm running macOS 10.12 and installed vagrant 5.1 using homebrew.
I got the same error as the OP and fixed it by downloading the latest version of VirtualBox (v5.1.6).
N.B. This version is labeled amd64 on the download page, this is just the name of the 64 bit standard and will install fine on Intel macs.

I had installed Virtualbox 6.1 and Vagrant 2.2.6 and got this error on a Mac. I had to revert Virtualbox to 6.0 and then vagrant up worked with ubuntu/trusty64. See #Serge Voloshenko's answer above for how to discover if it's a compatibility issue.

It is just the Version problems either it can be problem from vagrant or from Virtual box to connect
Try this : vagrant up --provider virtualbox
Above command will help if the version of virtual box is compatible or not and it will also suggest which are the current linkable versions of Virtual box
Currently : 4.0,4.1,4.2,4.3,5.0,5.1,5.2 are the versions of virtual box that are working
By the way, If you are worrying about version of Vagrant, I have tried current version : 2.0.3

Related

What is the url to the ubuntu/xenial64 box url for vagrant?

Where to find the url for the ubuntu/xenial64.box?
I only see version-info at https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/xenial64. But what is the url for the box download?
I simply do:
$ vagrant init ubuntu/xenial64
$ vagrant up
But get:
The box 'ubuntu/xenial64' could not be found.
So I guess I need to put something in config.vm.box_url, but what?
If you keep clicking around and following the links on the Vagrant Cloud website, then eventually you find that the box is hosted at http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com
From there, you can find the latest version of the xenial box specifically hosted at:
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/
Direct link to Vagrant box: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant.box
Sorry, was version mismatch. Newer vagrant works just fine.
I had Vagrant 1.4.x (on linux mint 17.1) and virtualbox 5. Online boxes were not found. Now I have Vagrant 1.8.1 (on linux mint 18.2) and virtualbox 5 and everything works as expected from the Vagrant manual (no url needed).
Thanks and sorry for waisting your time..
--
Oscar.

Vagrant laravel/homestead shared folders not mounting after 2.1.0 update

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, Virtualbox: Provider 'virtualbox' not found. We'll automatically install it now

I am running vagrant up command on Windows 7 box (Vagrantfile exists in work dir) and getting the message:
Provider 'virtualbox' not found. We'll automatically install it now...
Virtual box has been installed and vbox_install_path env variable is correctly set.
Working in intranet, there is no way to automatically install VB from the internet.
Vagrant 1.8.4 and older are not compatible with the VirtualBox 5.1.x.
Vagrant 1.8.5 has been released already and it supports the VirtualBox 5.1.x.
Sorted out. Vagrant 1.8.4 does not work with VirtualBox 5.1.0 (on Win7 at least). Fixed after VB version was changed to 5.0.20

vagrant box cannot be detected after "suspend"

After "vagrant suspend" on a Win7 (cygwin + Vagrant 1.6.3 + virtualbox + CentOS 6.5 as Guest), the box cannot be restarted:
$ vagrant status
Current machine states:
default not created (virtualbox)
How ever, I find the box withhin virtualbox, and if executed via the VB GUI, it runs and works.
Is that a known behaviour, and is there any solution?
I had this problem, where it seems to be more about Virtualbox than Vagrant. The answer was kindly given to me from a GitHub link - https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/2969 All you had to do is get the Machine uuid from C:\Users[username]\VirtualBox VMs[Vagrant name][Vagrant name].vbox-prev and create the missing id file and paste in the Machine uuid under .vagrant\machines\default\virtualbox\id
Hopefully this works for you too.

Unable to run vagrant up due to Vbox error (MS 81.)

I am on Windows 8.1
When i attempt to install vagrant and run it with virtual box i always get the following 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 have tried different things such as uninstalling both virtual box and vagrant and re-installing them.
I have tried installing vagrant first then vbox and the other way around also but no change.
I am new to vagrant so if anyone can assist please.
I bet that you're using the latest VirtualBox version (4.3.12). If so, there's a known issue which will be addressed in Vagrant 1.6.3:
https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3852
As a workaround you can install VirtualBox 4.3.10 and it will work flawlessly.
As Emyl said, you can either downgrade your VirtualBox or upgrade your Vagrant to 1.6.3(as the issue has been fixed in this version).
But if you want to have a quick fix on this issue you can simply change the environmental variable name for the Virtual Box installation path from VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH to VBOX_INSTALL_PATH
(This PC -> Advanced System Settings -> Environmental Variables -> Search for VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH and change it to VBOX_INSTALL_PATH)
Make sure to restart your terminal before doing vagrant up again.
You are done!
changing VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH and change it to VBOX_INSTALL_PATH in environment variables and then restarting terminal resolved my issue :)
I also had this problem on Windows 8.1 and solved it by restarting my computer. If you have just installed VirtualBox, you may need to restart your command prompt or Windows for the environment variables to get read correctly when you run "vagrant up".
i had to run the cmd.exe as administrator to make this work after using Sri Harsha Kappala solution

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