How do I associate a Vagrant project directory with an existing VirtualBox VM?

Question

Somehow my Vagrant project has disassociated itself from its VirtualBox VM, so that when I vagrant up Vagrant will import the base-box and create a new virtual

Answer 1

Had the issue today, my .vagrant folder was missing and found that there was a few more steps than simply setting the id:

1. Set the id:

   VBoxManage list vms
   

   Find the id and set in {project-folder}/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id.

   Note that default may be different if set in your Vagrantfile e.g. config.vm.define "someothername".

2. Stop the machine from provisioning:

   Create a file named action_provision in the same dir as the id file, set it's contents to: 1.5:{id} replacing {id} with the id found in step 1.

3. Setup a new public/private key:

   Vagrant uses a private key stored in .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key to ssh into the machine. You'll need to generate a new one.

   ssh-keygen -t rsa
   

   name it private_key.

   vagrant ssh then copy the private_key.pub into /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys.