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Change Vagrant port forwarding on a running system

I have a Vagrant system up and running and I want to apply a change to it which is as little as changing one of the forwarding rules.

From this page:

Forwarded ports are applied during vagrant up like any other configuration. But if you already have a running system, calling vagrant reload will apply them without re-importing and re-building everything.

Note that forwarding ports requires a virtual machine restart since VirtualBox won’t pick up on the forwarded ports until it is completely restarted.

Sounds exactly like what I want! But if I try a vagrant reload all of my Chef recipes are reloaded and since the full process takes about half an hour, I have to go to the kitchen and grab the nth cup of coffee.

Is there any way to apply Vagrantfile changes on a running system without going trough the whole provisioning process? I cannot drink so much coffee.

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Roberto Aloi Avatar asked Sep 27 '11 07:09

Roberto Aloi


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2 Answers

Have you tried using the VirtualBox user interface to add the new port forwarding rule manually? Open VirtualBox and select the running VM, then hit Settings->Network->Port Forwarding and add the new rule to, for example, forward 127.0.0.1:2223 to 10.0.2.15:22. After doing this I was able to connect to my VM on ports 2222 (as per usual) and 2223 (the new rule).

Naturally, you would add this new rule to your Vagrantfile at the same time to ensure that the mapping becomes permanent after the eventual restart.

Also, if your VM provisioning takes so long, have you considered moving some of the chef/puppet steps into the actual base box? For example, perhaps you are installing a bunch of server software that takes a while to install. Repackaging the box with this software already installed could dramatically reduce your Vagrant startup time.

Hope this helps!

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Dawngerpony Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 20:09

Dawngerpony


you can do

vagrant reload --no-provision

and it should run without chef, puppet, etc.

although it will still reboot the vm- feels like "But if you have an already running system..." is maybe a bit misleading.

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awongh Avatar answered Sep 17 '22 20:09

awongh