got it.

i am afraid is not possible at the moment.are a couple of issues open for
this.

hopefully it may be implemented soon.




On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Yiyu Jia <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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