Can I rename a Vagrant box?

Question

I misspelled the name of a box when I added it to my box list:

vagrant box list
debian
ubnutu

Can I rename the box without repackaging it?

Answer 1

You can simply rename the dir that represents the box. If your vagrant files are in their default dir (i.e. /path/to/your/home/.vagrant.d) you can just do:

mv vagrant_path/boxes/box_to_rename vagrant_path/boxes/new_box_name

Also be sure to change the Vagrantfile to use the new label for the box. You just need to change the config.vm.box directive to reflect the changes.

Answer 2

I would do this:

$ vagrant box repackage mis-spelled-name
[vagrant] Compressing package to: /Users/johndoe/package.box
$ vagrant box add correct-name /Users/johndoe/package.box
...

Not the worst to know about these two anyway, since you can frequently update base boxes (e.g. to update the kernal, software and guest editions) to avoid running all these required updates every time you vagrant up.