No. I want to put vms on different disk. For example, suppose I have two
hard disc (disc1 and disc2) in my PC server and I configure two vm (vm1 and
vm2) in one VagrantFile, I want to put vm1 on disc1 and vm2 on disc2.

changing default VirtualBox will still put two vms under same directory.


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <[email protected]
> wrote:

> you want all the vms in the same disk?
>
> you can move the default vm directory.
>
> or that doesn't work?
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Yiyu Jia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alvaro,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for response and helps!
>>
>> I checked just now. Vagrant does not use command "VBoxManage createvm" to
>> create new VMs. Instead, it use Import command to import vm from ovf file
>> (box). So, that "--basefolder" looks like not helpful.
>>
>> Then, I searched the options for "vboxmanage import" command and that
>> options should allow us specify where the images file can be put.  But, no
>> lucky so far.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Yiyu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> if moving the default folder is something that will work for you, then
>>> the best will be you do it at virtualbox for the moment, and every new
>>> machine will go there
>>>
>>> if your requirement is to be able to select per virtual machine where to
>>> put the vm, this is done already in vmware from what i understand, and are
>>> a couple of tickets/issues open on github for this
>>>
>>> i will test over the weekend the command you have shared,, i wasnt aware
>>> of that one and seems it may do the trick
>>>
>>> i will report back after i test
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>  alvaro
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Yiyu Jia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> No others think it is useful for Vagrant to support provider having
>>>> parameter about folders, where vm images files are created and loaded?
>>>>
>>>> I ask in case I am stuck in a use case, which is not meaningful. My use
>>>> case is that I want to put vm images into different partition on the disk.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Yiyu Jia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alvaro,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot for response! It will be nice if Vagrant can support the
>>>>> feature that allow us specify the image location. But, sounds it depends 
>>>>> on
>>>>> provider's features as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> it looks that VirtualBox support options "--basefolder" (
>>>>> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-createvm) . Is
>>>>> this options supported in Vagrant?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yiyu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vagrant will use the default location for each provider, so the fix
>>>>>> will be per provider.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For Virtualbox, you can change that location on the gui/preferences
>>>>>> and any new VM will be created there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For Vmware, I have read that there is a parameter you can use to
>>>>>> specify the directory where the disks are going, and I will assume you 
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> also edit the the default vm location.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alvaro.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Yiyu Jia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, I know we can got o VirtualBox Manager and click "File ->
>>>>>>> Preference -> General" to change the default machine folder.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But, do we have provider options that allow us to specify different
>>>>>>> VM to different folder inside one VagrantFile ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:59:42 PM UTC-4, Yiyu Jia wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I had Vagrant and VirtualBox installed on my CentOS 6.5 PC server.
>>>>>>>> I find that the vm image file is always put under folder 
>>>>>>>> ./root/VirtualBox
>>>>>>>> VMs/ .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Will anyone please share with me how to make Vagrant to put new
>>>>>>>> launched vm image files under a specified folder? I have this question
>>>>>>>> because I have multiple lvm on my machine and the default folder is 
>>>>>>>> under a
>>>>>>>> lvm partition whose size is very small. I want to make vagrant to put 
>>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>>> launched vm image under other lvm partition which has big size.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> any help will be appreciated!
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