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What is the difference between vagrant box repackage (docs) and vagrant package (docs)?
I realise that vagrant package works only with the VirtualBox provider, but in case only VirtualBox is used - what's the difference? Maybe there's a specific reason vagrant package was created?
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the 'repackage' command creates a distributable box file from the unpacked box in your ~/. vagrant. d/boxes directory.
Command: vagrant package [name|id]This packages a currently running VirtualBox or Hyper-V environment into a re-usable box. This command can only be used with other providers based on the provider implementation and if the provider supports it.
Command: vagrant box update This command updates the box for the current Vagrant environment if there are updates available. The command can also update a specific box (outside of an active Vagrant environment), by specifying the --box flag. Note that updating the box will not update an already-running Vagrant machine.
vagrant package
If you have a running VirtualBox VM, you created without vagrant first, did your things using VirtualBox, and you now want to use Vagrant to manage this VM. As vagrant needs box to start VM, you will run vagrant package to create a vagrant box based on the existing VirtualBox VM
vagrant repackage
You will use this option when you have an existing vagrant box installed on your system. So you use vagrant with a given box, again you will make change to the VM and you want to save those changes (software installed ...) as a new box, you will run vagrant repackage on this box, and it will create an updated version of this box so it can be used as starting box for new VM.
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