Vagrant Config Error - "A box must be specified."
Solution 1
Inside of your machine definitions, you need to use the variable name of that machine, instead of config
. Try this out:
In the file below, I've changed config.vm
to either php5dot3.vm
or php5dot6.vm
:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
# Globally defined variables
config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/var/www/public"
# CentOS 6.5, Apache 2.2.15, MySQL 5.5.36 (-u root), PHP 5.3.28
# Note: If PHP session keys don't work, set permissions to 777 (or other more restrictive, but this is guaranteed to work) on /var/lib/php/session
config.vm.define "php5dot3", primary: true do |php5dot3|
php5dot3.vm.box = "smallhadroncollider/centos-6.5-lamp"
php5dot3.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567
end
# Ubuntu 14.04 (SSH pw: vagrant), Apache 2.4.12, MySQL 5.5.43 (-u root -p root), PHP 5.6.10
config.vm.define "php5dot6", autostart:false do |php5dot6|
php5dot6.vm.box = "scotch/box"
php5dot6.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4568
end
end
I also added autostart:false
to the definition of your php5dot6
box, which you can remove if you wish. (It just means that running vagrant up
will only start the primary by default.
Solution 2
If you are getting this error with DigitalOcean, you may need their plugin:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-digitalocean
Installing the 'vagrant-digitalocean' plugin. This can take a few minutes...
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Solution 3
For someone that is having this issue now:
I had deleted my Vagrantfile before trying to destroy it. You need to run the vagrant destroy
command from the right directory where the Vagrantfile for that process is.
Run vagrant ssh-config
and look at the directory column.
If you, like me, deleted the file, do:
vagrant init
Then
vagrant destroy $id
P.S.: Use sudo
if you have permission issues running those commands.
Sam A. Horvath-Hunt
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Updated on June 06, 2022Comments
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Sam A. Horvath-Hunt almost 2 years
The boxes were working fine. Then I halted one (the only one running at the time) and now I can't get either of them back up.
Running
vagrant up [name]
gives me the following error, regardless of which I pick or whether I leave it atvagrant up
for them both to come up:There are errors in the configuration of this machine. Please fix the following errors and try again: vm: * A box must be specified.
Running latest version of Vagrant (1.7.4).
Here is my Vagrantfile in its entirety, comments included (just in case):
# Search for boxes here: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search # Refer to commands_vagrant.txt for command reference Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| # Globally defined variables config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/var/www/public" # CentOS 6.5, Apache 2.2.15, MySQL 5.5.36 (-u root), PHP 5.3.28 # Note: If PHP session keys don't work, set permissions to 777 (or other more restrictive, but this is guaranteed to work) on /var/lib/php/session config.vm.define "php5dot3", primary: true do |php5dot3| config.vm.box = "smallhadroncollider/centos-6.5-lamp" config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567 end # Ubuntu 14.04 (SSH pw: vagrant), Apache 2.4.12, MySQL 5.5.43 (-u root -p root), PHP 5.6.10 config.vm.define "php5dot6" do |php5dot6| config.vm.box = "scotch/box" config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4568 end end
Result of running
vagrant status
:Current machine states: php5dot3 poweroff (virtualbox) php5dot6 poweroff (virtualbox)
Result of running
vagrant global-status
:id name provider state directory -------------------------------------------------------------------------- e1f3c85 default virtualbox poweroff /home/sam/Web c588d51 php5dot6 virtualbox poweroff /home/sam/Web 4e71c50 php5dot3 virtualbox poweroff /home/sam/Web
'default' was the singular box I had in my Vagrantfile before I got multi-machines working last week. (Relevant?)
Result of running
vagrant box list
:scotch/box (virtualbox, 2.0) smallhadroncollider/centos-6.5-lamp (virtualbox, 1.0.0)
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Sam A. Horvath-Hunt about 8 yearsThis seems to have fixed my long-standing issue with Vagrant. Thank you so much!
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Brian Vanderbusch about 8 yearsWish you hadn't had to wait 4 months for the issue to be resolved!
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Parthian Shot about 8 yearsBright side? Problem solved! Flip side? ...How did I not figure this out... :/
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SiliconMachine over 4 yearsThis solved my problem for DigitalOcean on Vagrant 2.2.5. Thank you!
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FlyingV over 4 yearsYou are welcome my friend. I am glad I could save someone some time. If this was helpful please upvote so others can find it as well.