Vagrant: Unable to add a box from another drive under Windows

Created on 26 Aug 2013 · 8Comments · Source: hashicorp/vagrant

The console below is quite explicit:

        D:\travail\rmanTest>vagrant box add oracle C:\oracle.basebox
        Downloading or copying the box...
        ←[0KAn error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error
        message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try
        again.

        Couldn't open file /oracle.basebox

Gotta love working with VMs on a 128Gb SSD drive -_- ...

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rgarrigue

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For some reason in my setup, the syntax file://drive:/whatever only worked if the command prompt was in the drive being used... If it was outside it didn't work... Worse, this behaviour seemed to depend whether curl was download a box or a metadata file

Use file:////fileserver/directories/file, it always works.

nuncanada on 29 Jul 2015

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Can you get me the VAGRANT_LOG=debug for this and gist it?

mitchellh on 29 Aug 2013

Here it is https://gist.github.com/rgarrigue/6375932/raw/8c5c961cde32f23cc52035cf5d09c4a3d1034d1c/gistfile1.txt

rgarrigue on 29 Aug 2013

I can't reproduce this oddly enough. However, does this work if you do a vagrant box add with the path to the box as file:///C:/oracle.basebox?

mitchellh on 6 Sep 2013

As I deleted the previous homemade basebox, I downloaded the vagrant provided lucid64 and tried again. Here is the first reproduction, using windows's cmd as usual.

D:\travail\testVagrant>vagrant box add test c:\lucid64.box
Downloading or copying the box...
←[0KAn error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error
message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try
again.
Couldn't open file /lucid64.box

Then I tried your proposition, it's OK

D:\travail\testVagrant>vagrant box add test file:///C:/lucid64.box
Downloading or copying the box...
←[0KExtracting box...ate: 126M/s, Estimated time remaining: --:--:--)
Successfully added box 'test' with provider 'virtualbox'!

Which reminded me of one other possibility. I have cygwin installed and its bin dir added to my PATH. I dunno about the way it works but I sometimes felt he is meddling with cmd's path. Whatever. I tried this

D:\travail\testVagrant>ls /cygdrive/c/lucid64.box
/cygdrive/c/lucid64.box
D:\travail\testVagrant>vagrant box add test /cygdrive/c/lucid64.box
Downloading or copying the box...
←[0KAn error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error
message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try
again.
Couldn't open file /cygdrive/c/lucid64.box

rgarrigue on 6 Sep 2013

file:///... does the trick after a persistent struggle...

asemakula on 19 Nov 2013

I'm not sure if this helps but I've been using a directory hack like this https://gist.github.com/Lightsword1942/7611354 to add data drives to VM's on separate drive letters. That generates a 300gb empty data drive in the current directory which can be on the D drive or any other, I imagine the same method would be useable for the primary image.