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 had same issue today. Spend few hours to find the solution. If by any reason you can't find the list of exiting virtual machines then type in terminal

sudo virtualbox

This will run Virtual Box in GUI. You should see the the full list of VMs and from there you'd be able to manage them. Typing "virtualbox" only won't show anything. You need to be root (administrator).

Thanks to mightyspaj for the tip.