I did reply few days ago, let me re-send what I wrote: Hello, are 3 different PATHs, can you explain with of them do you want to have in the external disk
1. The Vagrant project. This is where the Vagrantfile exits. This is easy, should work from the external disk. 2. The VAGRANT_HOME, this should be a different path than the previous path. 3. Virtualbox path, you can also setup to the external drive, and use a environment variable, which is VBOX_USER_HOME, this will be the home where the xml configuration file will be created, so easy trick will be. Set this variable. Open the gui Change the default path, say W:\VirtualBox VMs\ close the gui open the gui and check is still good Say your have W: You could use: W:\vagrant_home W:\vagrant_projects W:\vbox_home W:\VirtualBox VMs So each directory is different, since each folder hold different stuff on it. Hope this helps. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Marcus Renz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > no one has a working solution? > > My colleague managed it with a external harddisk on differernt computers, > but he only has the harddisk of the VM (the *.vmdk file) on the external > disk. > Everything else is on the host, so he doesn't change any Paths. > > This is not the optimal solution, there must be a better one to have > everything possible inkl. boxes etc. on the external harddisk. > > Thanks in advance > Marcus > > Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2014 17:00:31 UTC+2 schrieb Marcus Renz: > >> i want to use my vagrant VBox image (Debian) on 2 ore more different >> Windows 7 PCs, because a lot of settings and data (e.g. DB, Vhost) are >> already in place. I'm using the image for different projects and just make >> a new vagrant-vbox-image when i need other OS, PHP etc. versions. >> >> So i installed Vagrant and Virtualbox on both machines, changed the path >> of the Virtualbox-Images to my external disk via Virtualbox Manager and >> also changed the path of /.vagrant.d to the external disk by setting an >> environment variable for VAGRANT_HOME. On both machines. Now it works on >> one machine, but i can't start the image on the other one. >> >> I'm using the latest VBox 4.3.15. i tried to start the image with >> "vagrant up", but this tries to install me a new image from the box defined >> and gives me this error: >> >> Stderr: VBoxManage.exe: error: Could not rename the directory 'W:\VirtualBox >> VMs\boxes_default_1383360377_1408558738514_43554' to 'W:\VirtualBox >> VMs\dev_deb720' to save the settings file (VERR_ALREADY_EXISTS) >> >> And adding the existing image to the VBox Manger by just clicking in >> the .vbox and then starting it from there just brings up an error: >> >> Fehlercode:E_FAIL (0x80004005) Komponente:Machine Interface:IMachine >> {480cf695-2d8d-4256-9c7c-cce4184fa048} >> >> >> Some informations still seems to be on the host computer, maybe the ids. >> But i can't find out why this doesn't work. >> >> So has anyone tried to do the same and can describe how the same >> vagrant-vbox-image can be used on different machines? Or some hints? >> >> FYI: >> I've posted this question before at stackoverflow, but didn't get a >> working answer or example. >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25412077/running- >> vagrant-from-external-disk-on-2-different-computers/25415642 >> >> Thanks in advance! >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
