A VirtualBox machine with the name 'homestead' already exists

Question

Since homestead 2.0 homestead laravel has not been working

I don\'t know why \'homestead init\' creates a Homestead.yaml file in mydirectory/.homestead and not in

Answer 1

I solved by using vboxmanage to get the ID of the VM.

$ vboxmanage list vms
"my-vm" {c700b8b6-b766-4638-871b-736b44b7db18}

Copy the ID of the desired VM (the c700…db18 string) into the contents of ~/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id. Save the file then run vagrant up to get the vm working without having to destroy it.