Vagrant Config Error - “A box must be specified.”

Question

The boxes were working fine. Then I halted one (the only one running at the time) and now I can't get either of them back up.

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Running vagrant up [name] gives me the following error, regardless of which I pick or whether I leave it at vagrant up for them both to come up:

There are errors in the configuration of this machine. Please fix
the following errors and try again:

vm:
* A box must be specified.

Running latest version of Vagrant (1.7.4).

Here is my Vagrantfile in its entirety, comments included (just in case):

# Search for boxes here: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
# Refer to commands_vagrant.txt for command reference

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

    # Globally defined variables
    config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/var/www/public"

    # CentOS 6.5, Apache 2.2.15, MySQL 5.5.36 (-u root), PHP 5.3.28
    # Note: If PHP session keys don't work, set permissions to 777 (or other more restrictive, but this is guaranteed to work) on /var/lib/php/session
    config.vm.define "php5dot3", primary: true do |php5dot3|
        config.vm.box = "smallhadroncollider/centos-6.5-lamp"
        config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567
    end

    # Ubuntu 14.04 (SSH pw: vagrant), Apache 2.4.12, MySQL 5.5.43 (-u root -p root), PHP 5.6.10
    config.vm.define "php5dot6" do |php5dot6|
        config.vm.box = "scotch/box"
        config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4568
    end

end

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Result of running vagrant status:

Current machine states:

php5dot3                  poweroff (virtualbox)
php5dot6                  poweroff (virtualbox)

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Result of running vagrant global-status:

id       name     provider   state    directory                           
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
e1f3c85  default  virtualbox poweroff /home/sam/Web                       
c588d51  php5dot6 virtualbox poweroff /home/sam/Web                       
4e71c50  php5dot3 virtualbox poweroff /home/sam/Web    

'default' was the singular box I had in my Vagrantfile before I got multi-machines working last week. (Relevant?)

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Result of running vagrant box list:

scotch/box                          (virtualbox, 2.0)
smallhadroncollider/centos-6.5-lamp (virtualbox, 1.0.0)

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Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

Inside of your machine definitions, you need to use the variable name of that machine, instead of config. Try this out:

In the file below, I've changed config.vm to either php5dot3.vm or php5dot6.vm:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

    # Globally defined variables
    config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/var/www/public"

    # CentOS 6.5, Apache 2.2.15, MySQL 5.5.36 (-u root), PHP 5.3.28
    # Note: If PHP session keys don't work, set permissions to 777 (or other more restrictive, but this is guaranteed to work) on /var/lib/php/session
    config.vm.define "php5dot3", primary: true do |php5dot3|
        php5dot3.vm.box = "smallhadroncollider/centos-6.5-lamp"
        php5dot3.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567
    end

    # Ubuntu 14.04 (SSH pw: vagrant), Apache 2.4.12, MySQL 5.5.43 (-u root -p root), PHP 5.6.10
    config.vm.define "php5dot6", autostart:false do |php5dot6|
        php5dot6.vm.box = "scotch/box"
        php5dot6.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4568
    end

end

I also added autostart:false to the definition of your php5dot6 box, which you can remove if you wish. (It just means that running vagrant up will only start the primary by default.

Answer 2

If you are getting this error with DigitalOcean, you may need their plugin:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-digitalocean
Installing the 'vagrant-digitalocean' plugin. This can take a few minutes...
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