Vagrant difference between package and repackage

问题:

What is the difference between vagrant box repackage (docs) and vagrant package (docs)?

I realise that vagrant package works only with the VirtualBox provider, but in case only VirtualBox is used - what's the difference? Maybe there's a specific reason vagrant package was created?

回答1:

vagrant package

If you have a running VirtualBox VM, you created without vagrant first, did your things using VirtualBox, and you now want to use Vagrant to manage this VM. As vagrant needs box to start VM, you will run vagrant package to create a vagrant box based on the existing VirtualBox VM

vagrant repackage

You will use this option when you have an existing vagrant box installed on your system. So you use vagrant with a given box, again you will make change to the VM and you want to save those changes (software installed ...) as a new box, you will run vagrant repackage on this box, and it will create an updated version of this box so it can be used as starting box for new VM.