vagrant primary box defined but commands still run against all boxes

Question

I am trying to set my  dev  VM as primary so most commands such as vagrant up  vagrant halt  etc operate on the  dev  VM and ignore the  stage  VM unless the  stage  VM name is explicitly listed on the command line  Here s my Vagrantfile  but when I run vagrant up both VMs are brought up instead of just  dev      Vagrantfile API syntax version  Don t touch unless you know what you re doing  VAGRANTFILE API VERSION    2   def box setup config  ip  playbook  inventory    config vm network  private network  ip  ip   config vm provision  ansible  do  ansible      ansible playbook   playbook     ansible inventory path   inventory       ansible verbose    vvv    end end  Vagrant configure VAGRANTFILE API VERSION  do  config      common settings shared by all vagrant boxes for this project   config vm box    debian-7-amd64    config vm box url    https   dl dropboxusercontent com s xymcvez85i29lym vagrant-debian-wheezy64 box    config ssh forward agent   true     development box intended for ongoing development   config vm define  dev   primary  true do  dev      box setup dev           10 9 8 30    deploy playbook dev yml    deploy hosts vagrant dev yml    end     stage box intended for configuration closely matching production   config vm define  stage  do  stage      box setup stage           10 9 8 31    deploy playbook full stack yml    deploy hosts vagrant stage yml    end end

User · Accepted Answer

The primary flag seems to only work for vagrant ssh for me.

In the past I have used the following method to hack around the issue.

# stage box intended for configuration closely matching production if ARGV[1] == 'stage'     config.vm.define "stage" do |stage|         box_setup stage, \         "10.9.8.31", "deploy/playbook_full_stack.yml", "deploy/hosts/vagrant_stage.yml"     end end

[vagrant] vagrant primary box defined but commands still run against all boxes

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