Hello The limitation is on VMWare side and not on vagrant.
Some VMWare player allows CLI/API calls to create VMS, has been reported Linux VMWare player works but the other doesn't unfortunately is not a Vagrant limitation Thanks Alvaro On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:29 PM El Presidente <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am designing a system whose development environment is proposed to be > based on custom Vagrant boxes with VMWare as a provider. > Looking at the plugin requirements, it says I can use either the regular > or Pro versions of Workstation or Fusion. > Not seeing a non-Pro version of Workstation, I assumed that was > Workstation Player (I've been out of the loop on VMWare for a bit). I got > my company to pay for a couple of licences so we could prototype this. > However, when I try to do 'vagrant up' I get: > > Vagrant encountered an error while attempting to inspect VMware > for current version information: > > The system cannot find the file specified. > > Looking at the FAQs on the Vagrant plugin site, I see it says some > features may not work with VMWare Player and it isn't officially supported. > But there's a big difference between 'not officially supported' and > 'doesn't work at all'. > > So I'm trying to figure out if this is my problem (it literally does not > work with Player and I need to speak nicely to VMWare and get them to > refund the Player licences and sell us Workstation pro ones - and persuade > my company to pay the additional cost), or if it's something else entirely. > But I'm not getting anywhere. > > Has anyone any experience of this? Can you advise please? > Cheers > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues > IRC: #vagrant on Freenode > --- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/dd87c6b8-68a7-4330-916a-97dca5f972ea%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/dd87c6b8-68a7-4330-916a-97dca5f972ea%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Alvaro -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/CAHqq0ewv9yWOL8jeTF7JQRaGsumgL7622dEp6%2BerBJkCJc4hSw%40mail.gmail.com.
