Laravel Homestead: "VM not created.. moving on"

Question

I did a global install of Laravel homestead, edited my ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml-file and spun up the VM with homestead up. Everything worked fine, but then I needed to add another site. I edited Homestead.yaml to contain the new project, the tried to run homestead provision to apply the changes to the VM. The only thing that outputs is:

==> default: VM not created. Moving on...

I interpret that as the VM is not running, but it is. The only thing working here is homestead destroy followed by homestead up, but that (by its nature) detroys the VM's saved state. I though that vagrant commands was applicable to homestead as well, but vagrant suspend && vagrant up --provision doesn't help.

So.. How do I apply my new config to an already-existing homestead VM?

Solution 1

I found the answer at Laracasts. Copied directly from there:

Try doing this... You should see a vagrant box that is listed that is linked to your composer/vendor...

vagrant global-status

Example Output:

$ vagrant  global-status
id       name    provider   state   directory
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1ace413  default virtualbox running (...)/laravel/homestead

Then go ahead and run:

vagrant provision {ID}

Example input:

vagrant provision 1ace413

ID being the id of the vagrant instance in the above step.

You should then be good to go!

Solution 2

I recently change my laptop from 32 bit to 64 bit and have to redo installation and setup of my Homestead again.

After setup everything I run below command

vagrant reload --provision

and I get the same feedback which is

==> default: VM not created. Moving on...

After that I try this command and all works well.

vagrant up

I think for first time running Homestead, no need to reload --provision.