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modifyvm command failed #1198
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I am having the same problem. A customization command failed: ["modifyvm", "b4ce749b-f1a2-4770-82a0-44067a13b1b2", "--name", "app", "--memory", "512"] The following error was experienced: VBoxManage: error: Could not rename the directory '/Users/zepho/VirtualBox VMs/massiveapp_1350950208' to '/Users/zepho/VirtualBox VMs/app' to save the settings file (VERR_ALREADY_EXISTS) Please fix this customization and try again. |
Hm, this needs more information. Specifically: Any clean way to reproduce this? Otherwise, I'm not sure what solution there is to this, because as OP said, I can't just delete the directory because it could be a legitimate VM there. |
Hi Mitchell, I experienced a similar error, but I managed to recover from it. I had suspended an existing VM saved as C:\cygwin\home\Philip\VirtualBox VMs\test-box a couple of weeks ago. When I tried to "vagrant up", vagrant displayed the same error as till reported, except of course the GUID was different. When I had a look in the VirtualBox VMs folder, I noticed "test-box" was still there, and a new folder "vm_1365034476" had been created. I opened "test-box" with the VirtualBox GUI app, restarted the machine and logged in with no errors. I managed to shut down and power off the machine from the VM command line. Back in my vagrant root folder, I opened the .vagrant file to find that it contained the single line {"active":{"default":"9a3742cf-69cb-4c36-b646-feaca7cb6145"}}. The GUID here matched the one in the error message. Hmm. I replaced the GUID with "test-box", (i.e. the line now read {"active":{"default":"test-box"}}), and ran "vagrant up" again. This time, the box started up as expected. |
I am getting the same error. This is on a clean install of Ubuntu 13.04 Received:
The VM is in the VirtualBox GUI, and I can boot it from there without incident, just not from the vagrant command |
Also hit the same error. My procedure was:
I realize now I should have issued Ubuntu 13.04, Vagrant 1.2.2 |
To resolve my situation, I opened up my
I pasted that, overriding the existing ID in |
I had the same error during following steps on: http://docs-v1.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/base_boxes.html [Working environmnet: Windows with VirtualBox / Vagrant] If think that issue is that vagrant somehome remembers old path When Initial VirtualBox machine has been created:
So what I've noticed: vagrant is working this way:
So if there is any process which still using old path - where vagrant package has been created, vagrant up will fail with these errors which you described. For example - there is still cmd.exe run on old path. How to repeat this issue:
How to sort this - quick way:
Long term - solution: Hope that help. |
@mitchellh this issue is closed? I also have experienced it, though if it's closed, sort of moot.... |
Also having this issue. Certainly not closed. |
The issue is I've never been able to reproduce this. I certainly believe this is a bug, I do. But if I can't reproduce it, there is zero change that I can fix it. I'll try @marcinpraczko's steps above. |
@mitchellh , have you tried my steps (#1817)? I suspect it happens when the user has a non-standard Windows setup. For example, Program Files on second partition, as in my case. The fact that I apologize that I can't suggest code changes, but, not knowing Ruby, I haven't tried to look through the Vagrant code. |
Here's how I'm able to create it (running on OS X):
Assuming this installs without errors, then do:
The previous solutions listed have not been applicable to me since I had already tried to uninstall vagrant and virtualbox and had removed relevant directories and files. The issue has been difficult to resolve. Once this happens, it renders vagrant completely unusable. I've tried removing VirtualBox and Vagrant, and all vagrant and virtual box directories I can find, but I have not yet been able to get a virtual machine working again. |
@RenderRob Just did your steps and the problem doesn't appear for me. :( |
@mitchellh, another comment on #1817 with steps to reproduce. |
I am getting this same issue. Here is my setup: Windows 7 Host and Debian Guest. I get the error when doing vagrant up. I have tried a variety of steps to resolve it including re-installing both vagrant and virtualbox but to no avail. Any tips would be appreciated. |
I get the same error on a Win7 host with an FC18 guest where the VBOX and Vagrant folders are on an SSD. If I change the "Default Machine Folder" (VirtualBox > File > Preferences), to a folder on a non-SSD drive, I do not get the exception and everything works correctly. We do have other host systems that use an SSD successfully, so it could be an SSD driver problem. I suspect something to do with a write/delete race condition... I doubt very much the bug is in Vagrant. More likely a VirtualBox issue. I tried latest (.18) vbox as well as slightly older (.16). Error below is from vbox .16
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@psteiner thx, it works for me. |
@mikeknoop comment from above helped me figure it out. Take extra caution to mind your VM states when pushing / pulling repos. Looks like my machine UUID was out of sync. |
Had the same issue, I removed a cloned vagrant repo and recloned it and forgot to shut down the running VM. |
I've the same issue from time to time on our CI server:
The only way to fix that is to remove the "devbase" (vagrant machine name) VM folder in the ~/VirtualBox VMs path. It seems that VBox does not remember this path as it doest show it with:
a couple of specs on the host (guest system is a ubuntu 12.04 lts):
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Hello, so I am experiencing the same problem now with Win7 64 bit and Vagrant 1.4.3 and VBox 4.3.6. I've read the issues #1198, #1809 and #1817 which are related but all of them are closed. Is there any way to solve the problem?
The name of VM is set explicitly as shown below and it doesn't help:
I'd appreciate any help, |
My experience was that a folder with the name it was trying to copy to DID exist in the virtual boxes folder (ie. the folder available from the virtual box 'show in explorer function). Probably deleting this folder would have deleted the box & allows me to create a new one - however I wanted to recover it. After some false starts I was able to. These are the steps I took
I DID delete the .vbox.tmp file in the virtual machine directory (although I don't know it helped). Pretty sure I didn't alter the vbox-prev file |
Issue still exists... VirtualBox 4.3.12
I've tried setting all executables to "run as administrator" but that does nothing. If you need a way to recreate my situation (which was having to troubleshoot some PHP 5.2 incompatibilities for the WordPress plugin I work for) then download this: https://github.com/tierra/wp-vagrant and simply follow their Getting Started instructions. I obviously get the error on step 5 after calling vagrant up. Hope that helps, and thanks for all of your effort, talent and hard work put into this project. If I can get this working I may just dump my regular WAMP stack and become a Vagrant! |
Perhaps Vagrant could try to catch this error and explain it a bit better... but I wouldn't call this an bug or an issue. If you've got a folder with the same name as the one you are trying to create, that will obviously cause problems. |
@drpebcak I had JUST installed vagrant, and was attempting to set up my first box when I received the error. Don't think I should get a "folder already exists" error when attempting to create my first folder! |
I had this issue because a previous machine with the name homestead had created a snapshots folder named homestead that did not get cleaned up when running vagrant destroy. When trying to re-create the homestead machine I would get the error because a folder named homestead already existed. Not sure if this is because my machines are on a separate hard drive (E:/vmachines/) but I think vagrant destroy should have deleted that folder during cleanup. Manually deleting it fixed the problem for me. |
Hello, Perhaps before using vagrant you had a box calles "wordpress-php52" in Can you confirm? On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Brent Christensen <notifications@github.com
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I'm experiencing this issue as well. VirtualBox 4.3.15, vagrant 1.6.5 on Windows 7 64 Ultimate. When I set
Would it be possible to check for a specified |
I also got the issue. Solved it be removing the folder My error log:
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@mitchellh So this happens frequently when a VM crashes. Is there no way you could re-open this? I could probably take a look too and see if there is an exception/error to catch somewhere to work around this. |
Thanks for the help @mikeknoop !!! Couple years later and this problem is still around :( |
I confirm this problem still exists on Linux and Mac. I experienced it yesterday, my VM was running well since months. |
Hi all, Thank you for responding on this ticket. This issue is almost 3 years old and a lot has changed in Vagrant since. It would be really fantastic if someone could open a new issue that uses the newest version of Vagrant and includes the Vagrantfile and debug output 😄 |
I think it's not an issue anymore... The Vagrant file I'm using is the genterated by: The "issue" only happens in But if I use normally with |
I ran into the same issue tonight : "vagrant up" on a config done with PuPHPet. I just changed the hostname in config.yaml, line 6 hostname: local.dev to something else and the problem disappeared. I had another VM using the same hostname. |
I solved this by doing: |
Same problem here. |
@JamieRead Thank you, your approach worked. |
WARNING: The second argument to |
I had this same problem, I ran I opened up Virtualbox and the machine was running, so I powered it off and ran And it fixed my problem :D |
I had this problem working off of a vagrant config in a github repo. I'd installed the box months ago and tried to |
I had this problem. I've Powered off my box in VirtualBox and up again by |
@vuongggggg worked for me! |
open your virtual machine and increase the Ram size then try again. (or vagrant file enable vb.memory ) |
I had the same problem. I opened VirtualBox and I tried to run the machine myself, and a suggestions poped up. I had other configurations for the 5.0 version (now I had 5.2). The only thing I had to do was run the command |
Had the same issue, I just freed up some RAM and Hard Space on C and the problem is solved, now. |
config.vm.define "web" do |web|
end config.vm.define "db" do |db|
end // I HAD SAME ISSUE. vagrant was TRYING TO RENAME new vm TO "db" WHICH IS ALREADY EXISTSafter updating config |
in my cases, this is happened when I try to add a USB passthrough to VM... |
I'm going to lock this issue because it has been closed for 30 days ⏳. This helps our maintainers find and focus on the active issues. If you have found a problem that seems similar to this, please open a new issue and complete the issue template so we can capture all the details necessary to investigate further. |
So, the way to recreate this:
~/VirtualBox VMs
)vagrant up
I'm sure it's not simple to fix this since you cannot just deleted — could probably be from suspended VMs as well? Not sure if there is a way to indicate if this directory belongs to anything still or if it's an artifact of a previous run.
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