How do I increase the RAM and set up host-only networking in Vagrant?

Question

I would like to increase the RAM to at least 1 GB and I would like to configure “Host-Only” networking to use \"199.188.44.20\".

This is my Vagrantfile:

Answer 1

You can easily increase your VM's RAM by modifying the memory property of config.vm.provider section in your vagrant file.

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
 vb.memory = "4096"
end

This allocates about 4GB of RAM to your VM. You can change this according to your requirement. For example, following setting would allocate 2GB of RAM to your VM.

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
 vb.memory = "2048"
end

Try removing the config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024] in your file, and adding the above code.

For the network configuration, try modifying the config.vm.network :hostonly, "199.188.44.20" in your file toconfig.vm.network "private_network", ip: "199.188.44.20"

Answer 2

You can modify various VM properties by adding the following configuration (see the Vagrant docs for a bit more info):

  # Configure VM Ram usage
  config.vm.customize [
                        "modifyvm", :id,
                        "--name", "Test_Environment",
                        "--memory", "1024"
                      ]

You can obtain the properties that you want to change from the documents for VirtualBox command-line options:

• http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifyvm

The vagrant documentation has the section on how to change IP address:

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
  config.vm.network :hostonly, "192.168.50.4"
end

Also you can restructure the configuration like this, ending is do with end without nesting it. This is simpler.

config.vm.define :web do |web_config|
    web_config.vm.box = "lucid32"
    web_config.vm.forward_port 80, 8080
end
web_config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
    puppet.manifests_path = "manifests"
    puppet.manifest_file = "lucid32.pp"
end

Answer 3

I could not get any of these answers to work. Here's what I ended up putting at the very top of my Vagrantfile, before the Vagrant::Config.run do block:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
  end
end

I noticed that the shortcut accessor style, "vb.memory = 1024", didn't seem to work.

Answer 4

To increase the memory or CPU count when using Vagrant 2, add this to your Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    # usual vagrant config here

    config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
        v.memory = 1024
        v.cpus = 2
    end
end

Answer 5

Since Vagrant 1.1 customize option is getting VirtualBox-specific.

The modern way to do it is:

config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
  vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "256"]
end