Error when doing vagrant up

Question

I get this error when I do a vagrant up :

anr@anr-Lenovo-G505s ~ $ 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: 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/anr/base

This is the Vagrantfile I have:

 # -*- mode: ruby -*-
 # vi: set ft=ruby :
 Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
   config.vm.box      = 'precise32'
   config.vm.box_url  = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box'
   config.vm.hostname = 'bootcamp'
   config.ssh.forward_agent = true

config.vm.provider 'vmware_fusion' do |v, override|
  override.vm.box     = 'precise64'
  override.vm.box_url = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box'
end

config.vm.provider 'parallels' do |v, override|
  override.vm.box = 'parallels/ubuntu-12.04'
  override.vm.box_url = 'https://vagrantcloud.com/parallels/ubuntu-12.04'

# Can be running at background, see https://github.com/Parallels/vagrant-parallels/issues/39
v.customize ['set', :id, '--on-window-close', 'keep-running']
end

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3000, host: 3000

 config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
   puppet.manifests_path = 'puppet/manifests'
   puppet.module_path    = 'puppet/modules'
 end

end

This is my machine setup:

 vagrant -v     Vagrant 1.6.2
 VirtualBox     4.3.2
 Linux Mint 15 Olivia Cinammon

Solution 1

I was having this problem. I was creating the folder, and using the following commands:

vagrant init
vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64
vagrant up

and getting the error about downloading the remote file.

Try this:

create a folder,
cd folder
vagrant init hashicorp/precise64 (or whatever vm you want to run)
vagrant up

Hopefully this resolves your issue

Solution 2

The underlying problem is that your VM machine is mislabeled. I also realize you are targeting "precise32", but i'm using "base" as an example here.

if you were to navigate to:

~/.vagrant.d/boxes

you would see something like this:

$ ls -la

drwxr-xr-x 4 some_user staff 136 Oct 22 09:43 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 some_user staff 340 Oct 22 09:41 ../ drwxr-xr-x 4 some_user staff 136 Jun 29 13:23 hashicorp-VAGRANTSLASH-precise32/

that last line is telling you that you have only one box, and its the precise32 box.

however, assuming you setup a default Vagrant setup like so:

$ cd ~/src/vagrant/myvm
$ vagrant init

if you look inside the Vagrant file created for you:

$ vim Vagrant

you will see the following output:

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
    config.vm.box = "base" 
end

note that it is looking for the box named "base"! So what I did is:

$ cd ~/.vagrant.d/boxes
$ cp -R hashicorp-VAGRANTSLASH-precise32 base
$ cd ~/src/vagrant/myvm
$ vagrant up

and then you can go back and delete the "hashicorp-VAGRANTSLASH-precise32" box as it is now a duplicate.

Of course, you could have done this another way and renamed

config.vm.box = "base"

to whatever your box is called, but i found the former way better because if you wish to create a second vm based on the default box, then you would face the same problem. So its better to rename the box, instead of renaming each time you "vagrant init".

Solution 3

if you renamed the default name "base"

try it:

vagrant init "your box name"

It's work for me.

also see

Comments

[Optimus Prime]

Thanks! I was spending countless hours trying to fix this issue.

[Badar]

go to .vagrant.d/boxes/ and change folder "laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead" name to "base". Worked for me with this.

[JackChance]

doesnt work for me.. Instead of looking for /my/path/to/foo it now is looking for /my/path/to/foo/foo

[gsalgadotoledo]

Worked pretty awesome for me. Error was default: Downloading: atlas.hashicorp.com/bento/boxes/centos-7.2/versions/2.2.9/… default: An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again.

[mercury]

From a year ago, I have lost the hope to install homestead , due to consecutive errors , but with your trick , Now i had homestead working . thx alot @Martin

[Erikest]

Hmm, funny because if you just walk through the tutorial on the vagrant site you'll will end up right here with this problem as it leads you through those exact steps: create folder, go to folder, vagrant init, vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64, vagrant up -> error. The additional parameter to init creates a .vagrant subfolder with the additional pieces that seem to be necessary to make this work. The very first getting started page has you run vagrant init hashicorp/precise64, but it doesn't tell you where to run it and the following pages lead you down this hole, without explanation.