If I Open the Box and Im Inside There Again

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It looks like you may have created a Vagrant project with just vagrant init. That will create your Vagrantfile, but it won't have a box defined.

Instead, you could try

$ vagrant init hashicorp/precise32
$ vagrant up

which uses a standard Ubuntu image. The Vagrant website has a Getting Started which gives some good examples.

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answered Jun 17, 2014 at 5:42

BrianCBrianC

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• Gar, that was it. Why does it say "You are now ready to vagrant up your first virtual environment!" then??

  Jun 30, 2015 at 21:55

• If you've already done vagrant init and vagrant box add separately, you can just edit Vagrantfile and set config.vm.box to "hashicorp/precise32" or whatever box you want to use.

  Mar 6, 2016 at 1:28

• I agree--vagrant is very handy, but the user experience is so full of pit traps that are easy to fall into.

  May 20, 2016 at 19:40

• Thank you, your answer helped me!

  Apr 21, 2017 at 12:52

• Thanks, your answer helped me.

  Apr 27, 2021 at 14:34

If you're using OS X and used the standard install, Delete vagrant's old curl and it should now work

sudo rm /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curl

answered Nov 9, 2016 at 7:03

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• Thanks, this solved it for me as well. +1 vote up :)

  Nov 16, 2016 at 10:36

• This fixed my issue on mac while working with local and remote boxes

  Nov 17, 2016 at 0:13

• why on earth does it embed curl?

  Nov 19, 2016 at 22:07

• The -rf flag is a bit overkill here. Just sudo rm /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curl is enough. You should try to avoid using the -r (= recursive for travelling down directories) and the -f (= force without any questions asked) when they are not really needed. They are a powerful and dangerous tool, especially in combination with sudo...

  Nov 28, 2016 at 12:24

• This worked for me using Vagrant 1.8.7 installed with brew cask install vagrant. The same box file worked fine with same Vagrant version on Ubuntu 16.04.

  Nov 29, 2016 at 11:46

                vagrant init laravel/homestead                              

and then

                vagrant up                              

Was what worked for me.

answered Mar 20, 2015 at 16:07

noobmaster69noobmaster69

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• Perfect ! Thank you ! If someone can explain me why this happen I'll be glad :)

  Jul 1, 2015 at 9:19

• Thanks, it was driving me crazy hehe. greetings from Chile

  Dec 14, 2015 at 4:59

• use --force with vagrant init if there is already a vagrantfile

  Mar 30, 2016 at 8:56

• both above 2 answers fixed my problem. first remove 'curl' folder run sudo rm /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curl then run vagrant init laravel/homestead and then vagrant up

  Jan 10, 2017 at 21:56

This happened due to having a vagrant file without a defined box name. this happen when you running vagrant init with out a box name parameter.

So you have to delete the Vagrant file then

                vagrant init box-title vagrant up                              

I hope this could help!

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answered Dec 11, 2014 at 18:02

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• The list of available boxes is here

  May 8, 2015 at 11:04

• this answer saved me from 3 months loop of failing to vagrant that box up, thank you ( i'm on windows 7)

  Nov 11, 2015 at 0:37

work to me these are the following steps:

• cd homestead (in your directory homestead folder) OR cd Homestead
• del vagrantfile or rm -Rf Vagrantfile
• vagrant init laravel/homestead
• vagrant up

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answered Aug 13, 2015 at 3:29

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Please run this in your terminal:

                $ vagrant box list                              

You will see something like laravel/homestead(virtualbox,x.x.x)

Next locate your Vagrantfile and locate the line that says

                config.vm.box = "box"                              

replace box with the box name when you run vagrant box list.

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answered May 30, 2015 at 18:21

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• Note that the "Vagrantfile" is located in: C:\Users\YourUsername if you are using Windows.

  Dec 19, 2016 at 8:04

• That solved it for me because my box image mentioned in the .kitchen.yml wasn't available anymore. Tricky.

  Mar 1, 2017 at 9:46

if "Vagrantfile" already exists in this directory. Remove it before running "vagrant init". error shows then

                1. rm Vagrantfile 2. vagrant init hashicorp/precise64 3. vagrant up                              

answered Mar 24, 2018 at 3:47

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• ==> default: Box 'hashicorp/precise64' could not be found. Attempting to find and install... This allowed for remote install which is what I preferred anyways. I am running on VirtualBox Windows Host with Ubuntu14 client

  Jan 29, 2019 at 23:39

• This worked for me. So the problem is that when you do vagrant init, vagrant defaults to naming your "box" in Vagrantfile to just "base"? And to make that work, you had to specify a non-default Vagrant box name?

  Feb 15, 2019 at 13:31

I know this is old, but I got exactly the same error. Turns out I was missing this step that is clearly in the documentation.

I needed to edit the Vagrantfile to set the config.vm.box equal to the image I had downloaded, hashicorp/precise32. By default it was set to base.

Here's what the documentation says:

Now that the box has been added to Vagrant, we need to configure our project to use it as a base. Open the Vagrantfile and change the contents to the following:

                  Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|   config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise32" end                                  

techraf

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answered Oct 30, 2015 at 0:38

Steve PerrySteve Perry

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• It helps. I am using "vagrant init", the error comes. After specified "hashicorp/precise32" everything seems OK.

  Feb 16, 2016 at 6:44

• The step is in the official documentation but look at how many authors responding to this question don't include it.

  May 6, 2020 at 19:16

There appears to be something wrong with the embedded curl program in Vagrant. Following the advice above I just renamed it (just in case I wanted it back) and vagrant up began to work as expected.

On my mac:

♪ .vagrant.d sudo mv /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curl /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curlOLD Password:

answered Nov 11, 2016 at 0:00

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• While I'm not sure if this answers the original question it did help me. Digging into it a bit further I ran the embedded curl command and got dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libcurl.4.dylib Referenced from: /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curl_old Reason: Incompatible library version: curl_old requires version 9.0.0 or later, but libcurl.4.dylib provides version 7.0.0

  Nov 14, 2016 at 16:29

• I had the same issue with Vagrant 1.8.7 on OSX. The above worked.

  Nov 15, 2016 at 15:31

i experience this error too. I think it was because I failed to supply a box_url..

                vagrant init precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box                              

answered Jul 23, 2015 at 17:25

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• Adding config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box" to my Vagrantfile fixed it for me.

  Feb 8, 2016 at 16:52

With me I got an error when run vagrant up is (I used Macbook pro, Mac OS: 10.12.1):

An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again. Couldn't open file...

I tried to delete the Vagrantfile in my folder and run:

vagrant init hashicorp/precise64

then:

vagrant up

It can solved my problem. Hope this can help for someone who face the same problem.

answered Nov 11, 2016 at 6:49

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• I tried all of that several times. The only thing that worked was renaming curl. (Mac OS 10.12)

  Nov 16, 2016 at 6:15

• Worked for me too on a PC running windows 10

  Jan 6, 2017 at 6:43

I faced same issue when I ran following commands

              vagrant init vagrant up   Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...     default: Box Provider: virtualbox     default: Box Version: >= 0 ==> default: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly... ==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox     default: Downloading: base An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.  Couldn't open file /home/...../base                          

I corrected with

              >vagrant init laravel/homestead >Vagrant up                          

It worked for me.

Happy coding

answered Mar 14, 2017 at 3:03

Manish NakarManish Nakar

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The first and most important step before starting a Vagrant is, check which all boxes are present in your system. Use this command for getting the list of boxes available.

vagrant box list

Then move to further process that is, selecting a particular box

vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64 (I have selected ubuntu/trusty64)

then,

vagrant up

Thanks

answered May 17, 2020 at 20:48

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• "Next, run the [vagrant up] command in your terminal and access your project at homestead.test in your browser. Remember, you will still need to add an /etc/hosts file entry for homestead.test or the domain of your choice if you are not using automatic hostname resolution." Note: this is directly from the Laravel documentation for Homestead. It says nothing about {box-title} in that section of text, so saying passive-aggressive things like "NOTE: It would be great if you do a little bit of Google/Youtube search rather than blindly firing commands :) Thanks" is really not necessary.

  Aug 3, 2020 at 16:00

well, actually you have to do:

                vagrant up laravel/homestead                              

because according to homestead walkthrough you've just downloaded it: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead by:

                vagrant box add laravel/homestead                              

so you have to launch the box you mean to use - not some random ubuntu image ;)

answered Feb 10, 2015 at 14:20

Łukasz RysiakŁukasz Rysiak

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i've solved this problem in command line. First change directory to your vagrant file location, then init the Vagrant:

                vagrant init hashicorp/bionic64                              

! You will need delete the old Vagrant file.

Then

                vagrant up                              

answered Jun 15, 2021 at 17:46

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• well, you saved someone in 2021 :)

  Jun 30, 2021 at 21:24

• :D ♥ nice John!

  Jan 26 at 17:27

This work for me on Windows 10: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31594225/2400373

But it is necessary to delete the file: Vagranfile after use the command:

              vagrant init precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box                          

And after

              vagrant up                          

answered Jul 21, 2017 at 2:11

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In case, you added a box and started downloading it but interrupted that download, go to ~/.vagrant.d/tmp/ and delete the partial download file, then try again.

answered Dec 15, 2015 at 22:30

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I solved this problem by going to folder .vagrant.d/boxes/ under your home and changed name of the folder from laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead to base. And it worked for me.

Please check if virtualization is enabled in your BIOS.

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answered Mar 5, 2016 at 23:20

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• you should have run "vagrant init laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead"

  Dec 5, 2016 at 17:39

you can also just add the vm to your machine

              vagrant box add precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box                          

answered Mar 14, 2017 at 5:56

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When you do vagrant init , it replaces the vagrant file in your repo and can give you that error. So I would suggest you copy the original vagrant file from remote or a backup vagrant file and try vagrant up after that.

I came across same issue and I just copied the vagrant file from my remote repo and replaced the vagrant file I was trying to run. This synced the configurations in the vagrant file with the VM.

answered Sep 8, 2015 at 15:05

edit the vagrant file created by vagrant init in the same directory and enter the box name in the line config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64" where ubuntu/trusty64 is your base box. Now vagrant up will download and set ubuntu/trusty64 as base box for you.

answered Nov 21, 2017 at 6:14

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Follow the below syntax when creating the virtual box:

                              $ vagrant box add {title} {url}  $ vagrant init {title}  $ vagrant up                          

See http://www.vagrantbox.es/

answered Apr 16, 2018 at 22:02

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Check Homestead.yaml file carefully.Check if there is any extra space character after line ends. Then, open gitbash -> go Homestead directory -> command "vagrant up --provision".

answered Oct 26, 2018 at 5:20

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Check the following entry in your Vagrantfile

              Every Vagrant development environment requires a box. You can search for boxes at https://vagrantcloud.com/search.   config.vm.box = "base"                          

This is the default file setting which is created with vagrant init command. But what you need to do is do initialise vagrant environment with an OS box. For instance $vagrant init centos/7 . And the Vagrantfile will look something like this:

              Every Vagrant development environment requires a box. You can search for boxes at https://vagrantcloud.com/search.   config.vm.box = "centos/7"                          

This will resolve the error of not found base when doing a vagrant up.

answered Aug 15, 2020 at 16:32

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