I have an Ubuntu Virtual machine that is configured to have VT-x enabled, 6 Processors, and 25 GB RAM.
Inside that virtual machine I am trying to start a vagrant machine with the following configuration:
master.vm.box = "precise32"
master.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpuexecutioncap", "80"]
vb.memory = 10000
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "2"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]
end
When I start the Vagrant I get the error VT-x not enabled.
I tried both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Vagrant but still no luck.
Any idea how can I run Vagrant machine inside the Virtualbox?
UPDATED: As pointed out below, you can use nested VirtualBox + vagrant provided that only 1 virtual CPU is assigned to the nested VM, plus nested VM guest is 32-bit OS.
You can only use one virtual CPU without VT-x. Thus, the error message stating that VT-x isn't enabled is caused by the following line:
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "2"]
Replacing it with the following works (Vagrant has a shorthand for setting the CPU count):
vb.cpus = 1
NOTE: You can only run 32-bit VMs inside another VM.
Vagrant in nested Virtual Box
First of all you can run definitely Vagrant inside a nested Virtual Box.
VT-X Support (related to VirtualBox)
Currently VirtualBox is not supporting nesting VT-X. There is currently a feature request pending(see.: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4032) but as of now it is not expected to be in a new version of VirtualBox
Consequences from missing VT-X in nested VirtualBox
There are currently two consequences from nesting without VT-X:
- You cannot use multiple CPUs but you can use a single virtual cpu using
vb.cpus = 1
- You cannot run a 64-Bit VM within a nested VirtualBox.
You can not use the first VM as Virtual Box one. That's sure. But what you can do is, make the first VM ( Ubuntu) based on VMware Player 7, then you can set up Vagrant on that. Tested and confirmed on my own. VMplayer version 7 and Virtual Box version 5.0.20. Thanks to the comment from Rudolf in the same page
If you run vagrant + VirtualBox within a VirtualBox virtual machine and you face networking problems :
Don't forget to set the right virtual network adapter
I had to set the Adapter type to Paravirtualized Network (virtio-net)
in Settings -> Network -> Advanced to make it work
VirtualBox inside VirtualBox wont work. Try VMPlayer and then inside install VirtualBox and vagrant. Its works for me.