Where does Vagrant download its .box files to?

Question

What happens to the .box file after the following command is executed?

vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box

I can't find the lucid32.box file on the file system after download has completed.

Answer 1

@Luke Peterson: There's a simpler way to get .box file.

Just go to https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search, search for the box you'd like to download. Notice the URL of the box, e.g:

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20150530.0.1

Then you can download this box using URL like this:

https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20150530.0.1/providers/virtualbox.box

I tried and successfully download all the boxes I need. Hope that help.

Answer 2

As mentioned in the docs, boxes are stored at:

• Mac OS X and Linux: ~/.vagrant.d/boxes
• Windows: C:/Users/USERNAME/.vagrant.d/boxes

Answer 3

On Windows, the location can be found here. I didn't find any documentation on the internet for this, and this wasn't immediately obvious to me:

C:\Users\\{username}\\.vagrant.d\boxes

Answer 4

On Windows 10 with Vagrant 2.2.2, setting the environment variable VAGRANT_HOME will ensure that boxes are downloaded to a subfolder of the folder specified for VAGRANT_HOME.

In my case I set VAGRANT_HOME to e:\vagrant_home, and the boxes get stored under e:\vagrant_home\boxes.

This works for me.

That's where the boxes are stored. The virtual machines are being created in the folder configured in Virtual Box. To set the VirtualBox VM storage folder, go to: VirtualBox GUI --> File --> Preferences --> General --> Default Machine Folder.

Answer 5

To change the Path, you can set a new Path to an Enviroment-Variable named: VAGRANT_HOME

export VAGRANT_HOME=my/new/path/goes/here/

Thats maybe nice if you want to have those vagrant-Images on another HDD.

More Information here in the Documentations: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/other/environmental-variables.html

Answer 6

On Mac/Linux System, the successfully downloaded boxes are located at:

~/.vagrant.d/boxes

and unsuccessful boxes are located at:

~/.vagrant.d/tmp

On Windows systems it is located under the Users folder:

C:\Users\%userprofile%\.vagrant.d\boxes

Hope this will help. Thanks