Vagrant stuck connection timeout retrying

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My vagrant was working perfectly fine last night  I ve just turned the PC on  hit vagrant up  and this is what I get      gt  default  Clearing any previously set network interfaces       gt  default  Preparing network interfaces based on configuration        default  Adapter 1  nat     default  Adapter 2  hostonly    gt  default  Forwarding ports        default  22   gt  2222  adapter 1     gt  default  Booting VM       gt  default  Waiting for machine to boot  This may take a few minutes        default  SSH address  127 0 0 1 2222     default  SSH username  vagrant     default  SSH auth method  private key     default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying        default  Error  Connection timeout  Retrying      Has anyone had this before  vagrant isn t widely covered on the web yet and I can t find a reason why this is occurring

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I had an issue with this with an existing box (not sure what changed), but I could connect via SSH, even though the Vagrant box failed to boot up. As it happens my SSH key had changed somehow.

From the vagrant root folder I ran vagrant ssh-config which told me where the key file was. I opened this with puttygen and then it gave me a new key.

On my Linux guest, I edited ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and dropped the new public key in there.

Everything is working again - for now!

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Disabled iptables firewall inside the VM  This is how I solved it    I enabled the GUI interface in my Vagrantfile  this is the config file  I could login into the running VM in the Gui with the standard username vagrant and password vagrant I disabled the running iptables firewall inside the VM   This solved my problem  I found out  that the firewall blocked all IPs from local networks like 192 168 x x and 10 x x x  Adding a rule in  etc iptables d 199-allow-wan to allow all connections from wan   ip46tables -A wan-input -j ACCEPT    ip46tables is an alias  see this commit in my Vagrant example Freifunk community

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I ve found out that on MacOS with VirtualBox adding this to Vagrantfile will let you go further    config vm provider  virtualbox  do  vb    vb customize   modifyvm    id   --cableconnected1    on   end

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There are many good answers here  and I couldn t read it all  but  I just came by to gave my little contribution too  I had 2 different problems    vagrant up wasn t able to find my ssh  id rsa   because I didn t have it yet  at that time   I ran ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  myemailaddress mydomain com   based on this GitHub s article  and voil    steped through that  Then  I got the same problem of this question  Warning  Connection timed out  Retrying      eternally     So  after reading a lot  I ve restarted my system and looked at my BIOS  F2 to get there  on PC   and there were Virtualization disabled  I ve enabled that  saved  and started the system once again  to check if it has changed anything    After that  vagrant up worked like a charm  It s 4am but it is running  How cool  h     D As I know there are very few masochist developers like me  that would try this at Windows  specially at Windows 10  I just couldn t not to forget coming here and left my word    another important information  is that  I was trying to set-up Laravel 5  using Homestead  VirtualBox  composer etc  It has worked  So  hope this answer helps like this question and answers helped me  My best wishes  G-bye

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The way I had to solve this wasn t mentioned in this thread  so I m posting the details here in case it helps anyone else     What causes this is that vagrant can t ssh into the machine after it boots up   There s various reasons for this  as mentioned in this thread  such as the machine not booting up all the way  or iptables firewall blocking SSH    In my case  the problem was that I inadvertently setup a  private network  with an IP address in the same subnet as the built-in VirtualBox NAT network  in my case 10 0 2 0 24    This messed up the NAT network for the machine  but no errors shown anywhere   and since vagrant connects via the NAT network  it wasn t able to connect even though the machine was running and no firewalls were enabled   Vagrant configure  2   do  config    config vm network  private network   ip   10 0 2 31  end   The fix was to update my VagrantFile and use a  private network  IP that didn t conflict with VirtualBox s NAT network   Vagrant configure  2   do  config    config vm network  private network   ip   10 0 4 31  end

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I m just sharing this so that it may help another person in future  rubo77 above gave me the inspiration for this answer  I encountered this getting stuck in a connection timeout loop after uncommenting two lines in my vagrant file  vb gui  quot true quot  config vm network  quot forwarded port quot   guest  80  host  8080  Apparently the 1st line brings up the GUI which asks if you want to skip mounting or let vagrant mount manually  Commenting it back allowed me to log in  however I could still see  Connection Aborted  Retrying  in the terminal  So i ssh into my vagrant and typed  sudo iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED RELATED -j ACCEPT  Then vagrant reload and did not encounter any connection error  However take not this accepts all incoming traffic  So u might want to add rules to only allow port 8080 if you are going to use your bos for a long time  Digital Ocean gives a very nice tutorial on adding rules to your iptables  Remember to install iptables-persistent to save your firewall config

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I had the same issue  but none of other answers fully solved my problem  Answer by  Kiee was helpful  although all I could see in the GUI was a black screen  with underscore in top-left  this issue in Virtual Box also has been raised separately in stack overflow  again nothing helped    Eventually  a solution proved to be very simple  check version of your virtual machine   More precisely  I had a box from someone else with 64-bit Debian  but Virtual Box insisted to treat it as 32-bit  what I didn t notice  To change it  open Virtual Box  then open terminal and run  vagrant up   wait for the line  default  SSH auth method  private key   now you can hit ctrl C  or wait for timeout  and run  vagrant halt   your virtual machine won t be destroyed  so you can see it in the menu of Virtual Box  but will be powered off  so you can change settings  Chose your machine in the menu  click  Settings -  General  and chose proper  Version   for me it was  Debian  64-bit    After this type vagrant up again   If this is a case for you  or different changes in  Settings  solved your issue   you can create new box from the repaired one typing  vagrant package --output mynew box   Some more details  host 32-bit Ubuntu 12 04  guest 64-bit Debian 8 1  Virtual Box 5 0 14  Vagrant 1 8 1

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Had this issue for more than one week  Tried all solutions    1  giving SSH username and password 2  Enabling GUI interface 3  Updated Virtual Box and Vagrant   Nothing worked   Finally got the solution from this link  Add the Google public DNS IP to your Wifi Settings  under Network Preferences  gt  Wifi  gt  Advanced  gt  DNS add IP Address 8 8 8 8   Worked perfectly  May be this helps anyone who have problem in Mac  Thanks Skovmand

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It s a new  feature  of vagrant  Take a look here  https   github com mitchellh vagrant issues 3329  They will change the  Error  to  Warning   It s just telling you that the machine isn t booted yet  and it s trying to connect

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My solution turned out to be none of the above exactly   I m running Ubuntu 14 as guest inside a Windows 7 host   I had been running this vagrant box fine  but I started it up again after not using it for a couple of months  and it kept coming up with the SSH connection timeout   It turned out that somehow the key pair didn t work - so I copied the Vagrant public key into Ubuntu according to the instructions on this page   But that wasn t all   I then discovered that the private key in my base box was different than the private key here   Putting this private key in as the vagrant private key file in C  Users your-user vagrant d boxes vagrant-box-name nnnnnnnn virtualbox after placing the public key into Ubuntu fixed the problem

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Check your CPU s virtualization in BIOS setup is enabled

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Mine was running fine and then this  Warning  Remote connection disconnect  Retrying     over and over - maybe 20 times - until it connected   Based on answers above I just  vagrant destroy vagrant up   and it was all good   Mine was very simple but I made it that way by cutting down the Vagrantfile to just the config vm box    ubuntu trusty64  and it was still doing it   So that is why destroying and starting again seemed the best choice   Given the stateless nature of these Vagrant images I don t see why that wouldn t work in every case   I m just getting into this and I may yet learn that that isn t true

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Delete the file   C  Users UserName   vagrant d insecure private key   Then run   vagrant up

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I solved by just typing   C or ctrl C on Windows  twice and quitting the connection failure screen   Then  I could connect via SSH  vagrant ssh  and see the error by my own   In my case  it was a path mistyped

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If you re using a wrapper layer  like Kitchen CI  and you re running a 32b host  you ll have to preempt the installation of Vagrant boxes  Their default provider is the opscode  family  of binaries   So before kitchen create default-ubuntu-1204 make sure you use   vagrant box add default-ubuntu-1204 http   opscode-vm-bento s3 amazonaws com vagrant virtualbox opscode ubuntu-12 04-i386 chef-provisionerless box   for using the 32b image if your host doesn t support word size virtualization

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From the virtualbox interface  I booted on a  CD  first  and disabled the hard drive boot  Hence it was booting on from a CD iso  and obviously not on the expected machine    I hope it helps  And I hope it made someone smile too    PEBCAK

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I have faced the same problem  I fixed this by enabling Virtualization from BIOS setup

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Here is how it worked for me   After  quot vagrant up quot  started the virtual machine  turned off the machine and go to the new virtual machine settings in virtualbox  Then go to  quot Network quot  - gt   quot Advanced quot  Adapter Type  I changed from  quot Intel PRO XXXXX quot  to  quot PCNet-Fast quot   or any other adpter other than Intel PRO did work

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For me it was the compatibility between vagrant and virtual box   I m on windows 10 and what I did I uninstalled vagrant and virtual box  Then install an old version of virtual box specifically version 4 3 38   Install extension pack too for this version    Then installed latest copy of vagrant   1 8 5 at the moment    After that it worked

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encountered similar issue for ubuntu bionic64 by enabling the gui in Vagrantfile  i was able to login using default vagrant vagrant config vm provider  quot virtualbox quot  do  vb     vb gui   true end    then reset the firewall using the following command   ufw force --reset    then rebooted the system now this time without UI was able to boot in without any issues make sure to keep the backup of firewall rules before doing reset

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I got this when running vagrant VirtualBox inside VirtualBox  I resolved this by running the vagrant machine in the host machine

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Personally  for me  Tunnelblick VPN software was blocking the connection  Now when I m booting up new VMs I temporary disable Tunnelblick

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When you are stuck with your vagrant machine the way described above there is no need to boot in gui mode  and is impossible without an X server    While your VM is booting  in a separate terminal window  just find out the id of the running machine   vboxmanage list runningvms   This will result in something like this    projects 1234567890   5cxxxx-cxxx-4xxx-8xxx-5xxxxxxxxxx    Quite often  the VM is simply waiting for you to select an option in the bootloader   You can send the appropriate keycode  in the case  Enter  to the vm with controlvm   vboxmanage controlvm projects 1234567890 keyboardputscancode 1c   That s it  Your virtual machine will continue the boot process

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If you don t want to enable the GUI and then have to disable it later  you could also install the extension pack from Oracle   http   www oracle com technetwork server-storage virtualbox downloads index html extpack  Then put this in your Vagrantfile to enable VRDP   vb customize   modifyvm    id   --vrde    on     Now you can use RDP to connect to your box on demand without SSH needing to be running or the GUI open all the time

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Rather than ctrl-d-ing out of the virtual box as I m wont to do whenever I ssh into anything  I believe vagrant would prefer you get into another terminal and do a   vagrant halt  to stop the box   Then there will be no issues getting back into the VB

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What worked for me was allowing 64 bit virtualization on a 64 bit OS  Ubuntu 13 10  from BIOS

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FWIW-- My problem was due to using a really old config file instead of a newer one  Using the new configuration file  and thus tweaked changed DSL  fixed my problems instantly

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Like some people here already pointed out  the error appears - among other things - if the VirtualBox image did not boot properly  For me using the GUI mode on Vagrant did not help much as it only showed a black window  In the VirutalBox GUI I checked the settings on my VM and figured out that somehow the OS was set incorrectly  Debian 32 instead of 64 Bit    So I can only recommend checking the VirtualBox settings of the VM manually and getting the VM to boot without using Vagrant in first place

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In my case  giving it a static IP address  simply solved the problem   config vm network  private network   ip   192 168 50 50

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If you are working on Windows 8 or 10  this is what worked for me    Change BIOS settings to allow virtualization of 64bit  Here is how    Restart PC using Advanced Startup  Go to Advanced Startup - restart now - troubleshoot  - advanced option -  UEFI Firmware Setting  -  Restart   Inside BIOS window - Go to  Advanced  menu tab - Enable  Intel Virtual Technology  Save  amp  Exit

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I experienced the same issue on a Windows 8 1 machine  The connection timeout and enabling the gui was not usefull at all  the screen was black  The fix in my case was disabling  Hyper V   Quote from Vagrant documentation https   docs vagrantup com v2 hyperv index html     Warning  Enabling Hyper-V will cause VirtualBox  VMware  and any other virtualization technology to no longer work  See this blog post https   www hanselman com blog SwitchEasilyBetweenVirtualBoxAndHyperVWithABCDEditBootEntryInWindows81 aspx for an easy way to create a boot entry to boot Windows without Hyper-V enabled  if there will be times you ll need other hypervisors

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I had the same trouble with Vagrant 1 6 5 and Virtual Box 4 3 16  The solution described at https   github com mitchellh vagrant issues 4470 worked fine for me  I just had to remove VirtualBox 4 3 16 and install the older version 4 3 12

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It used to help to switch to trusty32  but the situation now got worse again  I tried to use Homestead 2 0 and now I ve got the Connection Timeout problem again  which would t usually be a problem  because switching to 32bit helped before  But now I can t just add a line like     config vm box  ubuntu trusty32  because we don t have a classic Homestead yaml file anymore  the values in the new 2 0 Homestead yaml file just seem to be inserted into the real one in the background and there ist no Vagrantfile available that I could manually edit      Hope someone can help

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One more possible solution for users of the VMware provider  For me the issue was resolved after removing a parallel installation of VirtualBox on the same host machine  Network interfaces between VMware and VirtualBox were apparently conflicting

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Look for this line in your Homestead yaml   config vm network  forwarded port   guest  80  host  8080   and change to   config vm network  forwarded port   guest  80  host  8000   then in Homestead directory  run   vagrant destroy vagrant up   See if it works

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What helped for me was the enabling the virtualization in BIOS  because the machine didn t boot

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Installing an ubuntu32 bits on an AMD64 bits did the trick  I don t have access to the BIOs since its a restricted environment  but i was still able to get it to work with ubuntu trusty32 instead of ubuntu trusty64  Using Vagrant 1 6 3 with VirtualBox 4 3 15 on Windows 7 SP1  hope that helps

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Maybe this is too simple an answer to help a lot of people  but worth trying if you haven t  Do a  vagrant halt  instead of a  vagrant suspend  then restart the VM with  vagrant up    I think my problem was due to some  kworker  process getting buggy and constantly timing out in the VM and so doing a hard reboot seemed to reload the process correctly whereas a save and restore was just restoring the broken process in its broken state

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I got it resolved when I killed putty process  Because I have git-ssh and putty both running  They were appearing to fight each other for ssh accessing  Only one is enough

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I faced the same issue  however non of the mentioned solutions worked for me  I solved it by downgrading Vagrant to 1 6 2 and now it works

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My solution to this issue was that my old laptop was taking wayyyyyyyyyyy too long to start up   I opened Virtual Box  connected to the box and waited for the screen to load   Took about 8 minutes   Then it connected and mounted my folders and went ahead   just be patient sometimes

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I had exact the same problem  I thought the problem might be with SSH keys  wrong localization of file or something else but I checked it many times  but you may always add in configure section username and password  without using ssh keys  and running gui so the code in Vagrantfile should look like more or less as below   Vagrant configure VAGRANTFILE API VERSION  do  config     config ssh username    vagrant    config ssh password    vagrant      config vm provider  virtualbox  do  vb       vb gui   true    end end   In my case even if GUI was displayed I got black screen  no errors or possibility to login or anything else  and in console I got the Error  Connection timeout  Retrying    many times  I made sure I had VT-x  virtualization  enabled in BIOS  I checked many combinations of versions of both Virtual Box and Vagrant together and many Vagrant boxes  for some of them I didn t have black screen in GUI but still have connection problems   Finally I ve updated VirtualBox and Vagrant again to the last versions and the problem still occurred   The crucial thing was looking at icons in VirtualBox after running vagrantup  with GUI in Vagrantfile as I showed above  as on the below image    Although I had no errors in VirtualPC  no warnings that VT-x is not enabled  my V icon was earlier gray so it means the VT-x was disabled  As I said I had it enabled in my BIOS all the time    Finally I realized the problem might by HYPER-V which I also installed and enabled to test sites on older Internet Explorer  I went to Windows Control Panel - gt  Programs and functions   Software and choose from the menu on left Turn on or Turn off Windows functions  hope you will find those  I use Polish Windows so don t know exact English names   I turned off Hyper-V  restarted PC and after running Virtual Box and vagrant up I finally had no errors  in GUI I have login screen and my V icon stopped to be gray    I wasted a lot of time solving this issue  and many PC restarts  so I hope this might be helpful to anyone that have problem on Windows - make sure you have Hyper-V turned off in your Control Panel

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The SSH connection timeout during initial booting may be related to variety of reasons such as    check whether virtualization is enabled in BIOS  as per comment   system awaits for user interaction  e g  share partition is not ready   mismatch of your private key  check the config via vagrant ssh-config   the booting process takes much longer time  try increasing config vm boot timeout   it s booting from the wrong drive  e g  from the installer ISO   VM firewall misconfiguration  e g  iptables configuration   local firewall rules  port conflict or conflict with a VPN software  sshd misconfiguration    To debug the problem  please run it a --debug option or like   VAGRANT LOG debug vagrant up   If there is nothing obvious  then try to connect to it from another terminal  by vagrant ssh or by   vagrant ssh-config  gt  vagrant-ssh  ssh -F vagrant-ssh default   If the SSH still fails  try to run it with a GUI  e g  config gui   true    If it s not  check the running processes  e g  by  vagrant ssh -c  pstree -a   or verify your sshd config     If it is disposable VM  you can always try to destroy it and up it again   You should also consider upgrading your Vagrant and Virtualbox     For more information  check the Debugging and Troubleshooting page

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I had the same issue after I deleted this line from my Vagrantfile   config vm network  private network   type   dhcp    VM loaded fine after I put this line back

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I had the same issue when I was using x64 box chef ubuntu-14 04    I changed to x32 and it worked hashicorp precise32

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I was testing a mounted folder in my vagrant VM by adding a new entry into  etc fstab  Later on I logged out  ran vagrant halt  but when I ran vagrant up I got   SSH auth method  private key Warning  Remote connection disconnect  Retrying      I read all these posts and tried all the ones that seemed relevant for my case  except for vagrant destroy  which would have certainly fixed my problem  but was a last resort in my case    The post by  Kiee gave me the idea to try to boot my VM directly from the VirtualBox GUI   During the boot process the VM halted itself and was asking me if I wanted to skip mounting the test folder that I had added earlier to  etc fstab   That s why vagrant couldn t boot the VM   After answering  NO  the VM booted no problem   I logged in  removed the naughty line from my fstab  and shutdown the VM   After that vagrant was able to boot just fine   Takeaway  If all of a sudden vagrant cannot boot back into your VM  try to boot directly from the provider  VirtualBox in my case    Chances are your boot is hanging for something totally unrelated to SSH

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I solved this problem  and will answer in case anyone else has a similar issue   What I did was  I enabled the GUI of Virtual box to see that it was waiting for input on startup to select whether I wanted to boot directly to ubuntu or safemode etc   To turn on the GUI you have to put this in your vagrant config Vagrantfile   config vm provider  virtualbox do  vb    vb gui   true end

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One thing to double check is if Hardware Virtualisation is enabled in your machine s BIOS   My problem is the same string of timeouts but I could only see a black screen in the GUI   A laptop which I was just setting up kept showing the same problem  After hours of searching I finally found a tip to see if the BIOS had Hardware Virtualisation was enabled   Here s the content of the post I found   I see there are still some users who are experiencing this issue  So  I will attempt to summarise a list below of some possible solutions to the SSH timeout problem    Make sure your firewall or antivirus is not blocking the program  which I doubt will happen often  Give your vagrant machine some time for timeouts to happen  If you dont have a very fast PC   Mac  the VM will take while to boot into an SSH ready state  so timeouts will happen  Therefore  first try to let vagrant timeout COMPLETELY before concluding that there is a fault  If vagrant times out completely then increase the timeout limit in the vagrant file to a few min and try again  If that still doesnt work  then try to clean boot your vagrant machine through the VirtualBox interface and enable the GUI of the machine beforehand  If the GUI doesn t show anything happening  ie  just blackscreen  no text  while it is booting  then your vagrant machine has got problems  Destroy the entire machine through the VB interface and reinstall  Delete the ubuntu image files in the Vagrant Images folder in the user folder and redownload and install  Do you even have an intel processor that supports 64bit hardware virtualisation  Google it  If you do  make sure there is no setting in your Bios disabling this feature  Disable hyper-v feature if you are running windows 7 or 8  Google how to disable  Make sure you are running through an SSH enabled client  Use Git bash  Download  http   git-scm com downloads Install a 32bit version of ubuntu like trusty32 or precise32  Just change the version in the vagrant file and reinstall vagrant in new directory  Make sure you are using the latest vagrant and virtualbox versions  Last resorts  Format your computer  reinstall windows and buy an intel core isomething processor    Hope that helps

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The solution I ve found is to check the cable connection option in the adapter 1 which is attached to NAT  I really don t know  this is my 4th vagrant box but this is the only one with cable connection option not checked  and upon checking it  it works

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