How to export a Vagrant virtual machine to transfer it

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I have a vagrant box up and running  configured with a LAMP stack   I need to transfer it to another PC  How can I export it  I guess that I can get a file  or files  that can be copied to another PC  so there I can run some command to import the vagrant box

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You have two ways to do this  I ll call it dirty way and clean way   1  The dirty way  Create a box from your current virtual environment  using vagrant package command   http   docs vagrantup com v2 cli package html  Then copy the box to the other pc  add it using vagrant box add and run it using vagrant up as usual   Keep in mind that files in your working directory  the one with the Vagrantfile  are shared when the virtual machine boots  so you need to copy it to the other pc as well   2  The clean way  Theoretically it should never be necessary to do export import with Vagrant  If you have the foresight to use provisioning for configuring the virtual environment  chef  puppet  ansible   and a version control system like git for your working directory  copying an environment would be at this point simple as running   git clone  lt your repo gt  vagrant up

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None of the above answers worked for me  I have been 2 days working out the way to migrate a Vagrant   VirtualBox Machine from a computer to another    It s possible   First  you need to understand that the virtual machine is separated from your sync   shared folder  So when you pack your machine you re packing it without your files  but with the databases   What you need to do   1- Open the CMD of your computer 1 host machine  Command line  Open it as Adminitrator with the right button -   Run as administrator   and go to your vagrant installed files  On my case  C  VVV You will see your Vagrantfile an also these folders    config   database   log   provision   www  Vagrantfile       The  www  folder is where I have my Sync Folder with my development domains  You may have your sync folder in other place  just be sure to understand what you are doing  Also  config and  database are sync folders   2- run this command  vagrant package --vagrantfile Vagrantfile   This command does a package of your virtual machine using you Vagrantfile configuration    Here s what you can read on the Vagrant documentation about the command      A common misconception is that the --vagrantfile option will package a   Vagrantfile that is used when vagrant init is used with this box  This   is not the case  Instead  a Vagrantfile is loaded and read as part of   the Vagrant load process when the box is used  For more information    read about the Vagrantfile load order    https   www vagrantup com docs cli package html  When finnished  you will have a package box file   3- Copy all these files   config   database  Vagrantfile  package box  etc   and paste them on your Computer 2 just where you want to install your virtual machine  on my case D  VVV     Now you have a copy of everything you need on your computer 2 host   4- run this  vagrant box add package box --name VVV   The --name is used to name your virtual machine  On my case it s named VVV   You can use --force if you already have a virtual machine with this name and want to overwrite it   Use carefully      This will unpack your new vagrant Virtual machine   5- When finnished  run   vagrant up  The machine will install and you should see it on the  Oracle virtual machine box manager   If you cannot see the virtual machine  try running the Oracle VM box as administrator  right click -  Run as administrator   You now may have everything ok but remember to see if your hosts are as you expected   c  windows system32 hosts   6- Maybe it s a good idea to copy your host file from your Computer 1 to your Computer 2  Or copy the lines you need  In my case these are the hosts I need   192 168 50 4 test dev 192 168 50 4 vvv dev       Where the 192 168 50 4 is the IP of my Virtual machine and test dev and vvv dev are developing hosts   I hope this can help you    I ll be happy if you feedback your go   Some particularities of my case that you may find   When I ran vagrant up  there was a problem with mysql  it wasn t working  I had to run on the Virtual server  right click on the oracle virtual machine -  Show console   apt-get install mysql-server  After this  I ran again vagrant up and everything was working but without data on the databases  So I did a mysqldump all-tables from the Computer 1 and upload them to Computer 2   OTHER NOTES  My virtual machine is not exactly on Computer 1 and Computer 2  For example  I made some time ago internal configuration to use NFS  to speed up the server sync folders  and I needed to run again this command on the Computer 2 host  vagrant plugin install vagrant-winnfsd

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My hard drive in my Mac was making beeping noises in the middle of a project so I decided to install a SSD  I needed to move my project from one disk to another  A few things to consider    I m vagrant w  virtualbox on a Mac I m using git   This is what worked for me   1   Copy your    vagrant d directory to your new machine  2   Copy your   VirtualBox  VMs directory to your new machine   3   In VirtualBox add the machines one by one using   Machine    gt  gt    Add   4   Run  vagrant box list  to see if vagrant acknowledges your machines   5    git clone my project  6    vagrant up    I had a few problems with VB Guest additions     I fixed them with this solution

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As of 2019 there is a subcommand  vagrant box repackage  vagrant box repackage --help  Usage  vagrant box repackage  lt name gt   lt provider gt   lt version gt      -h  --help                       Print this help   You can find name provider and version by running vagrant box list  vagrant box list macinbox  virtualbox  10 14 5    The ouput of vagrant box repackage is a file called package box which is basically a tgz file which the content can be listed as below    tar tzf package box   metadata json   box ovf   Vagrantfile   box-disk001 vmdk

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The easiest way would be to package the Vagrant box and then copy  e g  scp or rsync  it over to the other PC  add it and vagrant up  -   For detailed steps  check this out   gt  Is there any way to clone a vagrant box that is already installed

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This is actually pretty simple   Install virtual box and vagrant on the remote machine Wrap up your vagrant machine  vagrant package --base  machine name as it shows in virtual box  --output  Users myuser Documents Workspace my box copy the box to your remote init the box on your remote machine by running  vagrant init  machine name as it shows in virtual box   Users myuser Documents Workspace my box Run vagrant up

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As stated in  How can I change where Vagrant looks for its virtual hard drive   the virtual-machine state is stored in a predefined VirtualBox folder  Copying the corresponding machine  folder  besides your vagrant-project to your other host should preserve your virtual machine state

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