error while executing `VBoxManage` (vagrant/ virtualbox)

Question

I'm following the installation tutorial from Data Science at the Command Line which includes the following steps:

$ mkdir MyDataScienceToolbox

$ cd MyDataScienceToolbox

$ vagrant init data-science-toolbox/data-science-at-the-command-line

$ vagrant up

This works perfectly on one of my computer but not the other. Why?

Both computers are using Virtualbox version:4.3.12 and Windows 7.

This is the error message:

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Importing base box 'data-science-toolbox/data-science-at-the-command-line'...
There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant

for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["import", "C:\\Users\\bernard\\.vagrant.d\\boxes\\data-science-toolbox-VAGRANTSLASH-data-science-at-the-command-line\\0.0.5\\virtualbox\\box.ovf", "--vsys", "0", "--vmname", "packer-virtualbox-iso_1410075150030_92186", "--vsys", "0", "--unit", "7", "--disk", "C:\\cygwin64\\home\\bernard\\VirtualBox VMs\\packer-virtualbox-iso_1410075150030_92186\\packer-virtualbox-iso-disk1.vmdk"]

Stderr: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Interpreting C:\Users\bernard\.vagrant.d\boxes\data-science-toolbox-VAGRANTSLASH-data-science-at-the-command-line\0.0.5\virtualbox\box.ovf...

OK.
0%...
Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR
VBoxManage.exe: error: Appliance import failed
VBoxManage.exe: error: Could not create the clone medium 'C:\cygwin64\home\bernard\VirtualBox VMs\packer-virtualbox-iso_1410075150030_92186\packer-virtualbox-iso-disk1.vmdk'.
VBoxManage.exe: error: VMDK: cannot write allocated data block in 'C:\cygwin64\home\bernard\VirtualBox VMs\packer-virtualbox-iso_1410075150030_92186/packer-virtualbox-iso-disk1.vmdk' (VERR_DISK_FULL)
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Appliance, interface IAppliance
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "int __cdecl handleImportAppliance(struct HandlerArg *)" at line 779 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp

Answer 1

It looks like on the failing system your C: drive might not have enough free space. From the tail end of the error messages: "VERR_DISK_FULL".

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