Vagrant: Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not ready for guest communication

[Fuzzyma]

After vagrant alerts "Machine booted and ready!" I get the error
"Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not
ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug
should be reported."

I posted my debug-log here: http://pastebin.com/wxFxC4m6

[mitchellh]

It looks like this was happening with vagrant-vbguest installed. Please try without and see if it happens.

[rajalokan]

Hi All. I'm also facing similar issue after upgrading to Vagrant 1.3.1. @mitchellh you suggest removing line "config.vbguest.auto_update = true" from Vagrantfile or uninstalling vagrant-vbguest plugin at all.

[Fuzzyma]

I did both and it worked. But I didnt tried yours. Just test it and post the result :)

[rajalokan]

Removing the line seems to work for me as well. Thanks everyone. :)

[Fuzzyma]

The error is back. Since my machine didnt started properly the last times because of erros while mounting the shared folders, I installed the vgguest-plugin again. Now the machine didnt start either and I have no idea to fix that error...

EDIT: My Machine was complaining about the wrong guest-extension. VBguest wasnt able to install the newest version (different sources-error). Thats why I installed the extenstion manually via ssh. Afterwards one of my machines behaved like no guest-extension installed. Thats why I reinstalled the extension with vbguest again, which worked this time. Now the old error (of this issue) showed up. Thats why I just uninstalled vbguest again and NOW my machines are working as expected. Long way...

[merqlove]

This problem blow my mind on every mistake. Because here a lot of other very serious steps:)

[tmatilai]

Oh, I hadn't notice this issue here. This should be fixed in the next vagrant-vbguest release by dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest#80, dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest@c0272f9, and dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest#90.

[merqlove]

@tmatilai, Thanks!)

[matthewbaldwin]

FWIW, I just got this error running on host Mavericks, VBox 4.3.2, Vagrant 1.3.5 and the latest vagrant-vbguest. I destroyed the box and then re'uped and it worked fine.

[dawngerpony]

Running OSX Mountain Lion host:

[ dafydd horus ~/dev/github/tate ] vagrant --version
Vagrant 1.3.5
[ dafydd horus ~/dev/github/tate ] sudo vagrant plugin list
vagrant-vbguest (0.9.0)

The problem still occurs:

[ dafydd horus ~/dev/github/tate ] vagrant destroy
[default] VM not created. Moving on...
[ dafydd horus ~/dev/github/tate ] vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
[default] Importing base box 'precise-server-cloudimg-vagrant-amd64-disk1'...
[default] Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
[default] Setting the name of the VM...
[default] Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
[default] Fixed port collision for 22 => 2222. Now on port 2200.
[default] Creating shared folders metadata...
[default] Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
[default] Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
[default] Forwarding ports...
[default] -- 22 => 2200 (adapter 1)
[default] Booting VM...
[default] Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
[default] Machine booted and ready!
[default] The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of
VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can
cause things such as shared folders to not work properly. If you see
shared folder errors, please update the guest additions within the
virtual machine and reload your VM.

Guest Additions Version: 4.1.12
VirtualBox Version: 4.2
Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not
ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug
should be reported.

Should I still be having this problem? I wasn't sure whether @tmatilai was saying that a fix had been deployed yet.

[tmatilai]

@duffj The fix is included in a pre-release version:

vagrant plugin install --plugin-source https://rubygems.org --plugin-prerelease vagrant-vbguest

v0.10.0 should be released soonish, but unfortunately there are still some other unresolved issues.

[dawngerpony]

Thanks @tmatilai - much appreciated. It's a headless VM so I will disable vagrant-vbguest in it for now and wait for v0.10.0 to be released.

[kgatjens]

Hi, I have the same issue, I just tried everything with some vagrant and VBox versions, using and not the 'vagrant-vbguest' plugin without luck, can anybody help me?

[kgatjens]

Solved, I just deleted the folder: ~/.vagrant.d after 6 hours of try everything. After that, do 'vagrant up' will be enough.

[miguevz]

The @kgatjens solution also works for me!

[AbdenourAchab]

I still have the problem, and deleting ~/.vagrant.d did not fix it for me.

Here is how to reproduce the problem on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, assuming the relevant stuff (docker, vagrant, npm, etc.) is already installed on your computer:

$ npm install -g yo
$ npm install -g https://github.com/activelamp/generator-drupalal.git
$ yo drupalal

The above will try to create a skeleton web site for you. It will ask you a couple of questions, then, among other things, will try to use Vagrant. At that point, you will get the "Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug should be reported." error message.

You can try to delete ~/.vagrant.d and restart from scratch (including removing the contents of the directory to which you imported stuff with the yo command), and you will still get the same error message.

It would be great if you could get this fixed by the end of 2016.

[Basil-Nasrallah]

Hello guys, to solve the problem just do search in the files for .vagrant, .vagrant.d and make sure that you have one of them just !

[djmsuman]

@kgatjens your solution also worked for me on ubuntu 16.04. thanks buddy

[alpharameeztech]

the same issue appears on vagrant 2.2.2

[Laraveldeep]

Just faced the same issue on my windows 10 machine.

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'homestead-7' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> homestead-7: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' version '7.1.0' is up to date...
==> homestead-7: Running provisioner: file...
Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not
ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug
should be reported.

[djmsuman]

@Laraveldeep did you try to delete ~/.vagrant.d and then vagrant up?

[lucidlive]

I experienced this problem today and simply doing a vagrant reload and then vagrant provision resolved the issue.

[frey1esm]

If you delete ~\.vagrant.d and are using VMware you get:

The provider vmware_fusion could not be found, but was requested to
back the machine mymachine. Please use a provider that exists.

Vagrant knows about the following providers: docker, hyperv, virtualbox

So you have to go back and start over with vagrant install with the VMware plugin.

[jersonmartinez]

I was giving myself the same problem, I solved it.

Verify graphically in your virtualization provider that the first adapter is NAT and enabled.

This serves so that the communication by SSH is always functional.

[waltkong]

Just faced the same issue on my windows 10 machine.

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'homestead-7' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> homestead-7: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' version '7.1.0' is up to date...
==> homestead-7: Running provisioner: file...
Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not
ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug
should be reported.

hello, I met this same problem, could u help me,how did u solve this

[edlington]

The @kgatjens solution also works for me

[njmaeff]

Deleting just ~/.vagrant.d/tmp solved the error for me.

[MuhammadTaha]

vagrant reload and then vagrant up worked for me. Just deleting ~/.vagrant.d didn't worked.

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