Open Virtualbox with full path in both shells and check the path for the
virtual machines

what happen is the default directory is <HOME>/VirtualBox VMs

and time by time the HOME changes from shell to shell

its a VirtualBox setting here, related to what the shell is telling the
process the home folder is.

Alvaro.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Bob Van <[email protected]> wrote:

> I tried that and got 'command not found', but have now added vboxmgr to my
> (windoz7) path (which is exported to cygwin in bashrc).
>
> On windoz7 it lists the vbox name under my cygwin home, where I did the
> init. It comes up OK and says 'Machine already provisioned.'. When I exec
> 'ruby -v' it has the new ruby so that setup seems to work OK.
>
> The XP setup is the problem then. I'll have to add VBoxManager to its path
> and see on that.
>
> On XP, there's a VBox VM dir under cygwin home with the VM I installed
> pkgs in, and under 'c:\docs and settings\username\VBox VMs' I see new ones
> get created there when I run 'vagrant up', though I didn't 'init' a vbox
> there. Maybe the system is confused on the 'owner/user', with cygwin not
> really doing things the windoz way. Maybe I should just cd into the windoz
> user dir, init a vbox there, install pkgs and work from there instead of
> cygwin home.
>
> I actually saved all the commands to install all the stuff I added so am
> able to go through it again, as I have once already. I intend on putting
> them into a script called by vagrant during provisioning so I can recreate
> this sort of setup, but I also need to be able to reuse a setup, like when
> I start adding data into psql.
>
>
> On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 2:01:36 PM UTC-7, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> whats the output of VBoxManage list vms ?
>>
>> What could happen is that the machine is there but not being used.
>>
>> Alvaro.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Bob Van <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I've worked some with vagrant ubuntu (precise64) on windoz7, from
>>> cygwin, and not really using the VBox Manager app. On WInXP, I setup
>>> vagrant with an old precise32 and after running it and installing several
>>> ruby packages, I come back a couple of days later and 'vagrant up'
>>> provisions a new box, where I want my old one. I tried using VBox Manager
>>> to add the machine under cygwin, and could start it, but it lacks all the
>>> ruby stuff. Also it has no mouse so I lost control of the PC whci I suppose
>>> I would need to press 'ESC' or something. Why does 'vagrant halt' destroy
>>> my vm with ruby? Is there a way to get it back and start it?
>>>
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