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

Sometimes you might not want to delete old box. Yesterday may old Vagrant has broken, I've updated Vagrant and Virtualbox but folders mapping didn't work. I wanted to run new box and had this error.

I didn't want to remove old box (because I wanted to run some backups) but I wanted to run new box. The solution was running VirtualBox, right click on Homestead machine and choose Settings and then changing name from homestead to homestead_old.

After that I was able to install homestead but had this old machine and could also run this to make any backups I needed.