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

If you want to keep keep your machine, without destroying and recreating following steps should solve your problem. (I work on OS X El Captain, Vagrant 1.8.1)

Run homestead in debug mode

homestead --debug up

Look for something like in the output:

INFO machine: Initializing machine: default INFO machine: - Provider: VagrantPlugins::ProviderVirtualBox::Provider INFO machine: - Box: # INFO machine: - Data dir: /Users/YOUR_HOME_DIR/Workspace/Homestead/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox

Data dir, is the path which is interesting for you.

Then vboxmanage list vms

"homestead" {0e8438b9-4a67-4fb1-80cb-2c62cf04ab5c} "settler_default_1447385930122_73498_1474294682778_13108" {93ecb93f-f159-4406-a384-5312b4d3ab34}

Edit id file, in the path which you found out in the previous command

vi /Users/YOUR_HOME_DIR/Workspace/Homestead/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id

Replace content of that file, with the id of the VM you want to fix, in this scenario it is

0e8438b9-4a67-4fb1-80cb-2c62cf04ab5c

Now try

homestead up

VM should start booting. It might work, or you might have issues with ssh authentication

default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
default: SSH username: vagrant
default: SSH auth method: private key
default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...     default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...

To fix that do following Check Homestead SSH config

homestead ssh-config

You should get something like

Host default HostName 127.0.0.1 User vagrant Port 2222
UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no
PasswordAuthentication no
IdentityFile "/Users/pryznar/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"
IdentitiesOnly yes LogLevel FATAL

Edit IdentityFile file

/Users/YOUR_HOME_DIR/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

Check Homestead.yml

cat /Users/YOUR_HOME_DIR/.homestead/Homestead.yaml

Then copy path to the file under the key keys, and copy private key from that file

cat ~/.homestead/ssh/id_rsa

Last step is to replace private key in /Users/YOUR_HOME_DIR/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key with the one you just copied

Now try rung homestead again, should work.

homestead up

I got some warnings, but so far it works without issues

==> default: Warning: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure. ==> default: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES) The SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed. The output for this command should be in the log above. Please read the output to determine what went wrong.