vagrant up fails with cannot load winrm

Question

I am trying to run a Vagrant box with SQL Server for local development. I am running Fedora 23. The box in question is this.

vagrant up fails with the following error message:

/usr/share/vagrant/plugins/communicators/winrm/shell.rb:9:in `require':
cannot load such file -- winrm (LoadError)

I have tried to install winrm with gem install winrm, and it installs just fine, but vagrant still fails.

The following ruby script runs without errors:

require "winrm"
puts "hello world"

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Solution 1

Not sure what the problem was, but I fixed it by uninstalling vagrant with dnf, and installing the latest version from vagrantup.com. Seems winrm is included in the latest vagrant version.

Solution 2

The winrm and winrm-fs gems are not packaged with Fedora or Debian. You can run:

$ vagrant plugin install winrm
$ vagrant plugin install winrm-fs

(i.e. vagrant plugin install, not gem install).

Note: Using Vagrant version 1.8.1, the winrm gem failed to install and this fixed it:

$ vagrant plugin install winrm --plugin-version 1.8.1
$ vagrant plugin install winrm-fs

Solution 3

Had the same issue: With Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS running ruby 2.7.0p0 and Vagrant 2.2.6

The solution that worked for me -

$ vagrant plugin install winrm  
$ vagrant plugin install winrm-fs  
$ vagrant plugin install winrm-elevated (this additional error showed after the first two were installed)  

Solution 4

Same resolution as here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vagrant-up/mBYMUHm-YBI

So this is an issue with the Debian packaged version of Vagrant. Installing the DEB package from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html works (both for 1.6.5 and 1.7+).

780036 has been raised with Debian to track this issue.

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Comments

[Colin]

This was the easiest solution for Debian 8 (Jessie), which throws errors (zlib, Ruby version...) if I try to do vagrant plugin install winrm...

[Doug Bradshaw]

This was the easiest solution for me. Just sudo apt remove vagrant followed by a download and install of the latest .deb from the vagrantup.