Vagrant: How to exit with warnings from Vagrantfile?

Created on 15 Jul 2012 · 4Comments · Source: hashicorp/vagrant

We have a rather complicated chef setup which involves some per-developer settings loaded from a file being passed through to chef in the vagrantfile.

Is there a way for us to abort Vagrant if certain conditions are not met, and display a nice error message.

Currently we just throw an exception, but this causes a stacktrace, so if your terminal isn't big enough the message will be lost off the top.

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leth

Most helpful comment

Since this was the top Google result for the topic, to make it explicit, something like this should suffice:

if !Vagrant.has_plugin?('vagrant-vbguest')
  puts 'vagrant-vbguest plugin required. To install simply do `vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest`'
  abort
end

JoelBCarter on 31 Mar 2017

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There is no clean way to do this that Vagrant offers but since the Vagrantfile is Ruby, you can simply print a message and exit, couldn't you?

mitchellh on 18 Jul 2012

Good point!

leth on 18 Jul 2012

Since this was the top Google result for the topic, to make it explicit, something like this should suffice:

if !Vagrant.has_plugin?('vagrant-vbguest')
  puts 'vagrant-vbguest plugin required. To install simply do `vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest`'
  abort
end

JoelBCarter on 31 Mar 2017

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