Easiest way to copy a single file from host to Vagrant guest?

Question

I have a use case where I occasionally want to copy a single file from my host machine to the Vagrant guest.

I don\'t want to do so via traditional provisioners (Pup

Answer 1

if for some reasons you don't have permission to use

vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp

there is an alternative way :

First vagrant up yourVagrantProject, then write in the terminal :

vagrant ssh-config

you will have informations about "HostName" and "Port" of your virtual machine.

In some case, you could have some virtual machines in your project. So just find your master-machine (in general, this VM has the port 2222 ), and don't pay attention to others machines informations.

write the command to make the copy :

scp -P xxPortxx  /Users/where/is/your/file.txt  vagrant@xxHostNamexx:/home/vagrant

At this steep you will have to put a vagrant password : by default it's "vagrant"

after that if you look at files in your virtual machine:

vagrant ssh xxVirtualMachineNamexx
pwd
ls

you will have the "file.txt" in your virtual machine directory