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
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Trying to install laravel homestead in windows but inside a virtualbox. So first I installed VirtualBox which then allows me to install a VM which I called LaravelBox (so this is an empty machine) - which means I need to install ubuntu 16.04, then vagrant (as the documents on the laravel homestead site (https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/homestead#installation-and-setup) - which instruct me to install the homestead vagrant box, then configure, etc. When I get to he final step to run vagrant up, I get the error:
**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.**
Does this mean then I now need to install virtualbox inside the VM I just created called LaravelBox? - so it's the case of a VM that contains the laravel homestead vagrant box is inside a a VM? Any help is appreciated, thanks.
The first question why you try to install homestead in a VM instead of installing it in Windows directly?
Yes, the problem is that your VM can't find any Virtualbox installation, then you have to install it there and it will be working.
Homestead was meant to provide a Unix like dev environment so that it would be easier to work with symlinks and permissions, it uses Ubuntu vagrant box by default.
So you can either install homestead directly on your host machine i.e windows or as you already have a Ubuntu VM you can setup a basic dev server manually.
It does not make sense to run a VM inside a VM
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'm getting started Vagrant and want to use it with KVM/qemu (and the Virtual Machine Manager GUI), instead of installing VirtualBox. So I first installed Vagrant:
$ vagrant --version
Vagrant 1.9.1
$ vagrant box list
There are no installed boxes! Use `vagrant box add` to add some
As per these posts, I require vagrant-libvirt for it to work with KVM, so I installed that next:
$ vagrant plugin list
vagrant-libvirt (0.0.37)
vagrant-share (1.1.6, system)
Next, I to add a CentOS(7) box using vagrant box add "centos/7" and selected libvirt, when prompted. After which, I ran vagrant init and didn't encounter any errors:
$ vagrant init centos/7
A `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. You are now
ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read
the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on
`vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant.
However, vagrant up seems to be erroring out, like so:
$ vagrant up
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.
Here's the provider section in the Vagrantfile
config.vm.provider :libvirt do |domain|
domain.driver = "qemu"
domain.memory = 512
domain.cpus = 1
end
I tried modifying it to:
config.vm.provider :libvirt do |domain|
domain.driver = "kvm"
domain.host = 'localhost'
domain.uri = 'qemu:///system'
domain.memory = 512
domain.cpus = 1
end
I also tried vagrant up --provider=kvm, vagrant up --provider=qemu, and vagrant up --provider=libvirt too, to no avail.
Is there any step that I've missed? Or another package/dependency that needs to be installed?
Edit: After the adding centos/7 using vagrant, it shows up when running vagrant box list.
$ vagrant box list
centos/7 (libvirt, 1611.01)
Start vagrant box with command
vagrant up --provider=kvm
Although it has been said in https://seven.centos.org/2017/08/updated-centos-vagrant-images-available-v1707-01/ that
The vagrant-libvirt plugin is only compatible with Vagrant 1.5 to 1.8
You can use either the command line option --provider=kvm or you can set the VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER environment variable:
export VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER=kvm # <-- may be in ~/.profile, /etc/profile, or elsewhere
vagrant up
vagrant-libvirt(0.0.40) is compatible with Vagrant 2.0.2 if you are running Ruby 2.3, at least on Linux Mint 18.3 (Ubuntu 16.04). I used vagrant from the Debian download on the vagrantUp website and installed the plugin using it without any problem.
I have issues running vagrant up command on windows 7,I have followed all the steps mentioned in this link
When I run the command vagrant up --provider=hashicorp/precise32, in command prompt,I get the following error.
The provider 'hashicorp/precise32' could not be found, but was
requested to back the machine 'default'. Please use a provider that
exists.
I have also disabled the Antivirus before installation, but that did not help.
Vagrant works with some Providers, as VirtualBox, Xen, VMWare, AWS, Digital Ocean and Docker.
The hashicorp/precise32 is a box. After Vagrant 1.5 the Vagrant Cloud is available.
For use Vagrant, following the steps:
Install Vagrant
Install a provider, as VirtualBox
Create a new folder, as project
Open folder project
Execute vagrant init hashicorp/precise32
Execute vagrant up --provider=virtualbox or just vagrant up