Update a Vagrant Box?

Question

I have updated a box vagrant box update and now when I run vagrant up it boots into the old box. How can I update my box to use the newer version?

Solution

From the Vagrant docs:

Finally, you can update boxes with vagrant box update. This will download and install the new box. This will not magically update running Vagrant environments. If a Vagrant environment is already running, you'll have to destroy and recreate it to acquire the new updates in the box. The update command just downloads these updates locally.

Comments

[Steven]

So I need to run vagrant destroy and then vagrant up ?

[Joe]

vagrant reload The equivalent of running a halt followed by an up.

[djfried]

reload wont do it.. you need destroy

[giovannipds]

Can I run vagrant box update in parallel when I already have a machine running? stackoverflow.com/questions/42721065/…

[Ryan]

I had to run vagrant box remove laravel/homestead --box-version 1.1.0 so that vagrant up would then run the 4.0 version.

[GusDeCooL]

@Joe based on vagrant box update -h > Updates the box that is in use in the current Vagrant environment, if there any updates available. This does not destroy/recreate the machine, so you'll have to do that to see changes. Looks like we will need to destroy and up again.

[redanimalwar]

To finally answer @Steven 's question: In my case yes. I ran vagrant destroy after looking up how to update the box without doing anything b4 that. vagrant box update did not work after that, it said the new box was not downloaded and it could not update to it. So I just ran vagran up and it downloaded the new box and provisioned it from scratch as expected.

[Gonçalo Ribeiro]

To update a specific box you can use the --box argument. For example vagrant box update --box archlinux/archlinux.