Vagrant stuck connection timeout retrying

Question

My vagrant was working perfectly fine last night. I've just turned the PC on, hit vagrant up, and this is what I get:

==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    default: Adapter 1: nat
    default: Adapter 2: hostonly
==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...

Has anyone had this before? vagrant isn't widely covered on the web yet and I can't find a reason why this is occurring.

Answer 1

Installing an ubuntu32 bits on an AMD64 bits did the trick. I don't have access to the BIOs since its a restricted environment, but i was still able to get it to work with ubuntu/trusty32 instead of ubuntu/trusty64

Using Vagrant 1.6.3 with VirtualBox 4.3.15 on Windows 7 SP1

hope that helps.

Answer 2

I've found out that on MacOS with VirtualBox adding this to Vagrantfile will let you go further:

config.vm.provider 'virtualbox' do |vb|
  vb.customize ['modifyvm', :id, '--cableconnected1', 'on']
end

Answer 3

I have faced the same problem. I fixed this by enabling Virtualization from BIOS setup.

Answer 4

One thing to double check is if Hardware Virtualisation is enabled in your machine's BIOS.

My problem is the same string of timeouts but I could only see a black screen in the GUI.

A laptop which I was just setting up kept showing the same problem. After hours of searching I finally found a tip to see if the BIOS had Hardware Virtualisation was enabled.

Here's the content of the post I found:

I see there are still some users who are experiencing this issue. So, I will attempt to summarise a list below of some possible solutions to the SSH timeout problem:

• Make sure your firewall or antivirus is not blocking the program (which I doubt will happen often)
• Give your vagrant machine some time for timeouts to happen. If you dont have a very fast PC / Mac, the VM will take while to boot into an SSH ready state, so timeouts will happen.
• Therefore, first try to let vagrant timeout COMPLETELY before concluding that there is a fault.
• If vagrant times out completely then increase the timeout limit in the vagrant file to a few min and try again.
• If that still doesnt work, then try to clean boot your vagrant machine through the VirtualBox interface and enable the GUI of the machine beforehand. If the GUI doesn't show anything happening (ie. just blackscreen, no text) while it is booting, then your vagrant machine has got problems.
• Destroy the entire machine through the VB interface and reinstall.
• Delete the ubuntu image files in the Vagrant Images folder in the user folder and redownload and install.
• Do you even have an intel processor that supports 64bit hardware virtualisation? Google it. If you do, make sure there is no setting in your Bios disabling this feature.
• Disable hyper-v feature if you are running windows 7 or 8. Google how to disable.
• Make sure you are running through an SSH enabled client. Use Git bash. Download: http://git-scm.com/downloads
• Install a 32bit version of ubuntu like trusty32 or precise32. Just change the version in the vagrant file and reinstall vagrant in new directory.
• Make sure you are using the latest vagrant and virtualbox versions. Last resorts: Format your computer, reinstall windows and buy an intel core isomething processor.

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

What worked for me was allowing 64 bit virtualization on a 64 bit OS (Ubuntu 13.10) from BIOS.

Answer 6

One more possible solution for users of the VMware provider: For me the issue was resolved after removing a parallel installation of VirtualBox on the same host machine. Network interfaces between VMware and VirtualBox were apparently conflicting