Error when doing vagrant up

Question

I get this error when I do a vagrant up :

anr@anr-Lenovo-G505s ~ $ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
default: Box Provider: virtualbox
default: Box Version: >= 0
==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox
default: Downloading: base
An 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 /home/anr/base

This is the Vagrantfile I have:

 # -*- mode: ruby -*-
 # vi: set ft=ruby :
 Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
   config.vm.box      = 'precise32'
   config.vm.box_url  = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box'
   config.vm.hostname = 'bootcamp'
   config.ssh.forward_agent = true

config.vm.provider 'vmware_fusion' do |v, override|
  override.vm.box     = 'precise64'
  override.vm.box_url = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box'
end

config.vm.provider 'parallels' do |v, override|
  override.vm.box = 'parallels/ubuntu-12.04'
  override.vm.box_url = 'https://vagrantcloud.com/parallels/ubuntu-12.04'

# Can be running at background, see https://github.com/Parallels/vagrant-parallels/issues/39
v.customize ['set', :id, '--on-window-close', 'keep-running']
end

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3000, host: 3000

 config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
   puppet.manifests_path = 'puppet/manifests'
   puppet.module_path    = 'puppet/modules'
 end

end

This is my machine setup:

 vagrant -v     Vagrant 1.6.2
 VirtualBox     4.3.2
 Linux Mint 15 Olivia Cinammon

Answer 1

I was having this problem. I was creating the folder, and using the following commands:

vagrant init
vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64
vagrant up

and getting the error about downloading the remote file.

Try this:

create a folder,
cd folder
vagrant init hashicorp/precise64 (or whatever vm you want to run)
vagrant up

Hopefully this resolves your issue