Vagrant: The provider 'vmware_workstation' could not be found, but was requested to back the machine 'devmachine2'. Please use a provider that exists.

[hyperfocus1338]

Hello,

Vagrant can't find my VMware workstation 10 installation on Ubuntu. It's installed perfectly fine and is able to create VM's.

I have set the environment variable with:

export VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER=vmware_workstation

Trying to start Vagrant with vagrant up --provider vmware_workstation gave the same error.

I'm running Ubuntu desktop 13.04 with VMware workstation 10.

[mitchellh]

Have you installed the correct plugin with vagrant plugin? Can you run vagrant plugin list?

[mitchellh]

Closing due to inactivity

[weaming]

What plugin should be installed?

[carltondickson]

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/vmware/installation.html covers how to install the VMWare provider

Once installed I get this

$ vagrant plugin list
vagrant-vmware-workstation (4.0.18)

Note you'll need to buy a licence for this provider first, all covered on the link above

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