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

I'm using Vagrant 1.8.1 on OSX El Capitan

My vm was not shut correctly when my computer restarted, so when i tried vagrant up it was always creating new vm. No solutions here worked for me. But what did work was a variation of ingmmurillo's answer

So instead of creating .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id based on the id from running VBoxManage list vms. I had to update the id in .vagrant/machines/local/virtual_box/id

I've got a one liner that essentially does this for me:

echo -n `VBoxManage list vms | head -n 1 | awk '{print substr($2, 2, length($2)-2)}'` > .vagrant/machines/local/virtualbox/id

This assumes the first box is the one i need to start from running VBoxManage list vms