Easiest way to copy a single file from host to Vagrant guest

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I have a use case where I occasionally want to copy a single file from my host machine to the Vagrant guest   I don t want to do so via traditional provisioners  Puppet   Chef  because this is often a one-off -- I just want something quick to add to my Vagrantfile   I don t want to share an entire directory  possibly because I want to overwrite an existing file without nuking an entire directory on the guest   It also seems a bit overkill to write a shell provisioning script  and deal with potential escaping  when all I want to do is copy a file   So  what s the easiest way to copy a single file from host to guest

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Best way to copy file from local to vagrant  No need to write any code or any thing or any configuration changes  1- First up the vagrant  vagrant up  2- open cygwin  3- cygwin   go to your folder where is vagrantfile or from where you launch the vagrant   4- ssh vagrant   5- now it will work like a normal system

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Vagrant provides a way to execute a command over ssh instead of logging in  so for Linux host and guest you can use    from host to guest    cat   file on host txt   vagrant ssh -c  cat -  gt    file on guest txt    from guest to host    vagrant ssh -c  cat   file on guest txt   gt    file on host txt  No need for plugins or guest reloads  Just make sure to provide vagrant box ID to  vagrant ssh  if you are not in the same dir as the Vagrantfile  Tested on Vagrant v1 8 1

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Since you ask for the easiest way  I suggest using vagrant-scp  It adds a scp command to vagrant  so you can copy files to your VM like you would normally do with scp   Install via   vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp   Use it like so   vagrant scp  lt some local file or dir gt   vm name   lt somewhere on the vm gt

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What I ended up doing was to keep the file within my vagrant directory  automatically mounted as  vagrant   and copy it over with a shell provisioner   command    cp   File join   vagrant    path within repo     remote file   config vm provision  shell   inline   gt  command

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There is actually a much simpler solution   See https   gist github com colindean 5213685  comment-882885       please note that unless you specifically want scp for some reason  the easiest way to transfer files from the host to the VM is to just put them in the same directory as the Vagrantfile - that directory is automatically mounted under  vagrant in the VM so you can copy or use them directly from the VM

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An alternative way to do this without installing anything  vagrant-scp etc   Note that the name default needs to be used as is  since vagrant ssh-config emits that   vg scp       tmpfile   mktemp  tmp vagrant-ssh-config XXXX    vagrant ssh-config  gt   tmpfile   scp -F  tmpfile        rm  tmpfile      Copy from local to remote vg scp somefile default  tmp    Copy from remote to local vg scp default  tmp somefile       Copy a directory from remote to local vg scp -r default  tmp   tmp   The function would not be necessary if scp -F   vagrant ssh-config      would have worked across shells  But since this is not supported by Bash  we have to resort to this workaround

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if for some reasons you don t have permission to use   vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp   there is an alternative way    First vagrant up yourVagrantProject  then write in the terminal    vagrant ssh-config   you will have informations about  HostName  and  Port  of your virtual machine    In some case  you could have some virtual machines in your project  So just find your master-machine  in general  this VM has the port 2222    and don t pay attention to others machines informations   write the command to make the copy    scp -P xxPortxx   Users where is your file txt  vagrant xxHostNamexx  home vagrant   At this steep you will have to put a vagrant password   by default it s  vagrant   after that if you look at files in your virtual machine    vagrant ssh xxVirtualMachineNamexx pwd ls   you will have the  file txt  in your virtual machine directory

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Try this   vagrant ubuntu 14 04 This worked for me   scp -r -P 2222 vagrant localhost  home

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vagrant scp plugin works if you know your vagrant box name  check vagrant global-status which will provide your box name then you can run    vagrant global-status    id       name    provider   state   directory ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13e680d    default   virtualbox running  home user      vagrant scp   foobar  name in my case default   home  user

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If you are restrained from having the files in your directory  you can run this code in a script file from the Host machine      bin sh OPTIONS  vagrant ssh-config   awk -v ORS       print  -o    1      2     scp   OPTIONS   File To Copy vagrant YourServer  Where To Put File   In this setup  you only need to change  File To Copy to the file or files you want to copy and then  Where To Put File is the location on the VM you wish to have the files copied to   If you create this file and call it copyToServer sh you can then run the sh command to push those files   sh   copyToServer sh   As a final note  you cannot run this code as a provisioner because that runs on the Guest server  while this code runs from the Host

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Instead of using a shell provisioner to copy the file  you can also use a Vagrant file provisioner   Provisioner name   quot file quot  The file provisioner allows you to upload a file from the host machine to the guest machine   Vagrant configure  quot 2 quot   do  config          other configuration    config vm provision  quot file quot   source   quot    gitconfig quot   destination   quot  gitconfig quot  end

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You can add entry in    ssh config   Host vagrant     User vagrant     HostName localhost     Port 2222     IdentityFile  home user name  vagrant d insecure private key   and the simplescp file vagrant  path   You can find path to identity file using the vagrant ssh-config command

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Here is my approach to the problem   Step 1 - Find the private key  ssh port and IP   root vivi  opt boxes jessie  vagrant ssh-config Host default   HostName 127 0 0 1   User vagrant   Port 2222   UserKnownHostsFile  dev null   StrictHostKeyChecking no   PasswordAuthentication no   IdentityFile  root  vagrant d insecure private key   IdentitiesOnly yes   LogLevel FATAL   Step 2 - Transfer file using the port and private key as parameters for scp     scp -P 2222 -i  root  vagrant d insecure private key     someFileName txt vagrant 127 0 0 1     I hope it helps

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The best ans for me is to write the file   directory to be copied  to the vagrant file directory  now any file present there is available to vagrant in path  vagrant  That s it  no need of scp or any other methods  similarly you can copy any file from VM to host by pasting in  vagrant directory

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As default  the first vagrant instance use ssh port as 2222  and its ip address is 127 0 0 1  You may need adjust the port with real virtual host      gt  default  Forwarding ports        default  22  guest    gt  2222  host   adapter 1    So you can run below command to copy your local file to vagrant instance  password is the same as username which is vagrant   scp -P 2222 your file vagrant 127 0 0 1     You can also copy the file back to your local host   scp -P 2222 vagrant 127 0 0 1  PATH filename

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vagrant upload localfile   that will put localfile in the vagrant user s home dir   https   www vagrantup com docs cli upload html

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All the above answers might work  But Below is what worked for me  I had multiple vagrant host  host1  host2  I wanted to copy file from   Desktop file sh to host  host1 I did       vagrant upload   Desktop file sh host1  This will copy   Desktop file sh under  home xxxx  where xxx is your vagrant user under host1

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If someone wants to transfer file from windows host to vagrant  then this solution worked for me   1  Make sure to install   winscp   on your windows system 2  run   vagrant up   command 3  run   vagrant ssh-config   command and note down below details 4  Enter Hostname  Port  Username  vagrant  Password  vagrant in winscp and select   SCP    file protocol  5  In most cases  hostname  127 0 0 1  port  2222  username  vagrant  password  vagrant    You should be able to see directories in your vagrant machine

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Go to the directory where you have your Vagrantfile Then  edit your Vagrantfile and add the following   config vm synced folder        vagrant    mount options   gt    dmode 774   fmode 775         means the directory you are currently in on your host machine   vagrant  refers to   home vagrant  on the guest machine Vagrant machine    Copy the files you need to send to guest machine to the folder where you have your Vagrantfile Then open Git Bash and cd to the directory where you have your Vagrantfile and type   vagrant scp config json XXXXXXX  home vagrant    where XXXXXXX is your vm name  You can get your vm name by running   vagrant global-status

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