How to add a downloaded .box file to Vagrant?

Question

How do I add a downloaded .box file to Vagrant's list of available boxes? The .box file is located on an external drive.

I tried running vagrant box add my-box d:/path/to/box, but Vagrant interprets the path as a URL.

Solution 1

Solution:

vagrant box add my-box file:///d:/path/to/file.box

Has to be in a URL format.

Solution 2

You can point to the folder where vagrant and copy the box file to same location. Then after you may run as follows

vagrant box add my-box name-of-the-box.box
vagrant init my-box
vagrant up

Just to check status

vagrant status

Solution 3

Try to change directory to where the .box is saved

Run vagrant box add my-box downloaded.box, this may work as it avoids absolute path (on Windows?).

Solution 4

Alternatively to add downloaded box, a json file with metadata can be created. This way some additional details can be applied. For example to import box and specifying its version create file:

{
  "name": "laravel/homestead",
  "versions": [
    {
      "version": "7.0.0",
      "providers": [
        {
          "name": "virtualbox",
          "url": "file:///path/to/box/virtualbox.box"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Then run vagrant box add command with parameter:

vagrant box add laravel/homestead /path/to/metadata.json

Solution 5

Solution for Windows:

• Open the cmd or powershell as admin
• CD into the folder containing the .box file
• vagrant box add --name name_of_my_box 'name_of_my_box.box'
• vagrant box list should show the new box in the list

Solution for MAC:

• Open terminal
• CD into the folder containing the .box file
• vagrant box add --name name_of_my_box "./name_of_my_box.box"
• vagrant box list should show the new box in the list

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Comments

[Rakib]

what if i use vagrant box add my-box ./path/to/mybox.box ?

[Rakib]

i did vagrant init and vagrant up and my vagrant box is running. But i can't ssh. When i do vagrant ssh it says "The machine you're attempting to SSH into is configured to use password-based authentication. Vagrant can't script entering the password for you. If you're prompted for a password, please enter the same password you have configured in the Vagrantfile." whereas i didn't configure anything in the Vagrantfile. I am just using the Vagrantfile that got automatically created upon vagrant init. When i cat Vagrantfile, I don't see anything called a password or pem or anything

[Rakib]

i did vagrant init and vagrant up and my vagrant box is running. But i can't ssh. When i do vagrant ssh it says "The machine you're attempting to SSH into is configured to use password-based authentication. Vagrant can't script entering the password for you. If you're prompted for a password, please enter the same password you have configured in the Vagrantfile." whereas i didn't configure anything in the Vagrantfile. I am just using the Vagrantfile that got automatically created upon vagrant init. When i cat Vagrantfile, I don't see anything called a password or pem or anything

[Brad Parks]

you can also pass -f to force it to download the box again, and replace it if it already exists. e.g. vagrant box add -f my-box http://some-url

[codewario]

If vagrant ssh is asking for a password, and the base box you're using is public, chances are the password is vagrant.

[Karim Samir]

I have the same error and password vagrant didn't solve it

[Redsandro]

The password for the modern.ie Microsoft boxes is Passw0rd!

[Eugen Mayer]

vagrant under macos and linux (2.2.2) works with a nun URI path to, so the scheme file:// can be omitted here at least. Maybe that a version specific change or its windows specific, i rather expect the latter one

[Faizan Anwer Ali Rupani]

Finally a solution. Thanks

[MakisH]

To everybody who cannot ssh afterwards, the problem originates from the box export. You need to add the Vagrant insecure public key to the authorized keys again. See stackoverflow.com/questions/30075461/…