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I setup a Vagrant Ubuntu 12.04 box (VirtualBox as the provider) on Windows and it's been working great for the past few months. Yesterday, I added another forwarded port to the VagrantFile and did vagrant halt and vagrant up. Once I logged in, none of the programs I had installed were there ( which git showed nothing ).

I can boot the VM manually through the VirtualBox gui and everything is correct, so I know it's there and working. I tried the solution in this related stackoverflow question, but vagrant up still doesn't start the existing vm.

Here's the VirtualBox Log for my Vagrant VM: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6460060/

Not sure where else to look. Is there a way to force vagrant to load the existing VM?

Edit: Here's my VagrantFile as well. It's pretty standard, but I guess it might help. https://gist.github.com/gorrillamcd/7694989

Keep in mind that the machine was working fine until I made a change to my VagrantFile. It's the only thing that changed between functioning and non-functioning.

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  • do you have a vagrant machine with same name configured elsewhere, Vagrant boxes are not dependent on Vagrantfile path, for eg., if boxname given at config.vm.box = "boxname" is the unique identifier for box internally and you might have used the same name in multiple locations and did the changes there. – Vaibhav Mishra Nov 28 '13 at 13:23
  • No, I only have one Vagrant machine on my computer (my first to be exact). The box I'm using is precise32 from the vagrant website. I'll update the question with a bit of information and my VagrantFile. – GorrillaMcD Nov 28 '13 at 16:53
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The link between your working directory (the one with the Vagrantfile) and the VirtualBox VM is a file called id placed in the following subdirectory:

.vagrant\machines\<machine_name>\virtualbox

(Usually the <machine_name> for a single VM Vagrantfile is default).

The id file contains the UUID of the VirtualBox VM. You should check out the correct UUID using the following command:

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" showvminfo <VM_NAME> | findstr /B UUID

Then you should replace the id file with that UUID, and finally run vagrant up.

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  • You can also use VBoxManage list vms to easily get a list of VirtualBox's VMs together with their IDs. Also id file must not contain any white space characters, e.g. new-line character after the UUID. – Dawid Ferenczy Rogožan Aug 18 '15 at 16:37

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