Download vagrant box file locally from atlas and configuring it

Question

I want to download a vagrant box file from Atlas for using it later locally with my vagrant file. How can I do this, and how can I configure it?

Answer 1

To download a file you have to add version and provider in the URL. For example for downloading trusty64 First you need its URL which is https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/

then you have to add version and provider afterwards, for our example the download URL would be.

https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20180206.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box

Then you have to add it locally from your vagrant file.

To add it locally to vagrant file use the following command

vagrant box add foo-box /path/to/vagrant-box.box
vagrant init foo-box
vagrant up

This will create the vagrantfile and you can configure the vagrant file.

Answer 2

However, this will add the box as version 0.

○ → vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64 ~/Downloads/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box 
==> box: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly...
==> box: Adding box 'ubuntu/trusty64' (v0) for provider: 
    box: Unpacking necessary files from: file:///Users/ram/Downloads/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box
==> box: Successfully added box 'ubuntu/trusty64' (v0) for 'virtualbox'!

vagrant does not allow to specify a version number of the manually added box

○ → vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64 ~/Downloads/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box --box-version 20151021.0.0
==> box: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly...
You specified a box version constraint with a direct box file
path. Box version constraints only work with boxes from Vagrant
Cloud or a custom box host. Please remove the version constraint
and try again.

To update the version number of the box, change the folder name '0' in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-trusty64/0 to the version number you downloaded. For example '20160120.0.0'

 |2.2.3| MacBook-Pro in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-trusty64
○ → mv 0 20160120.0.0

now you are all set to update the version next time with vagrant command too

○ → vagrant box list
ubuntu/trusty64 (virtualbox, 20160120.0.0)

Answer 3

I faced the same issue not being able to download from script. So manually downloaded the box and added to vagrant as below,

you can get versions you want from here - https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/precise64

wget https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/precise64/versions/20160818.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box

cd my_vagrant_project
vagrant box add precise64 ~/Downloads/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box

vagrant init precise64
vagrant up