What is the Vagrant syntax for adding a locally existing VDI?

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vfclists picture vfclists · Dec 13, 2013 · Viewed 20.2k times · Source

What is the syntax for adding a locally existing VirtualBox .vdi to vagrant?

There doesn't appear to be an example of alternate URI schemes in the documentation.

Can it also use ssh and httpauth locations?

Answer

Terry Wang picture Terry Wang · Dec 15, 2013

You cannot directly "import" a VirtualBox VM into Vagrant.

Basically you'll have to package the existing VirtualBox VM to a box and then add it to vagrant.

NOTE: a box is tarred VirtualBox Exports (could be gzipped).

You would be doing

Package the existing VirtualBox VM (VDI format)

vagrant package --base mybox --output /path/to/mybox.box

See more here => http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/package.html

Add the box to vagrant

vagrant box add mybox /path/to/mybox.box

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