with this i did a setup for a coworker to share the vagrant and the vbox machines between windows and linux
so I assume should work between 2 different computers On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Marcus Renz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alvaro, > > i answerd to your first post and mentioned, that your solution will not > work. So i'm still searching for one. > So why did you re-post your reply? Have you really tested your described > setup with an external harddsik on 2 different computers? > > Best > Marcus > > Am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2014 02:35:07 UTC+2 schrieb Alvaro Miranda > Aguilera: >> >> 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. > -- 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.
