Vagrant - Not Supported the capability 'change_host_name'

Question

The problem is about the capability 'change_host_name' isn't supported by the guest when I try to execute the following command line:

vagrant up

It gives me an error as the following:

Vagrant attempted to execute the capability 'change_host_name'
on the detect guest OS 'linux', but the guest doesn't
support that capability. This capability is required for your
configuration of Vagrant. Please either reconfigure Vagrant to
avoid this capability or fix the issue by creating the capability.

Note that my OS is: OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

Guest Additions Version: 4.2.0 and VirtualBox Version: 5.0

I've tried many solutions of others who face this issue, but I couldn't fix it.

Answer 1

This is https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/7625. It will be fixed in the next release, until then if its blocking you, you can patch vagrant yourself

If you want to patch yourself

Method1 :

• search for the plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb file in your vagrant installation
  • e.g. /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.5/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb on mac/linux default install
  • or /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/vagrant-1.8.5/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb
  • windows : C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gems\gems\vagrant-1.8.5\plugin‌​s\guests\ubuntu\gues‌​t.rb
• replace with https://raw.githubusercontent.com/carlosefr/vagrant/1c631c18d1a654405f6954459a42ac19a1a2f096/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb (make sure to be with correct rights if you install as admin, you must be admin user to save the file)

• alternatively edit the file and replace all contents by

  module VagrantPlugins
    module GuestUbuntu
      class Guest < Vagrant.plugin("2", :guest)
        def detect?(machine)
          # This command detects if we are running on Ubuntu. /etc/os-release is
          # available on modern Ubuntu versions, but does not exist on 14.04 and
          # previous versions, so we fall back to lsb_release.
          #
          #   GH-7524
          #   GH-7625
          #
          machine.communicate.test <<-EOH.gsub(/^ {10}/, "")
            if test -r /etc/os-release; then
              source /etc/os-release && test xubuntu = x$ID
            elif test -x /usr/bin/lsb_release; then
              /usr/bin/lsb_release -i 2>/dev/null | grep -q Ubuntu
            else
              exit 1
            fi
          EOH
        end
      end
    end
  end
  

Method2 : An Alternative method to patch the file using patch command :

save the following file under vagrant-guest.patch

commit 00fa49191dba2bb7c6322fa8df9327ca505c0b41
Author: Seth Vargo <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Jul 23 11:40:36 2016 -0400

    guests/ubuntu: Revert detection

    - Semi-reverts GH-7524
    - Fixes GH-7625

diff --git a/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb b/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb
index 9aeb7aa..f60108e 100644
--- a/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb
+++ b/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,22 @@ module VagrantPlugins
   module GuestUbuntu
     class Guest < Vagrant.plugin("2", :guest)
       def detect?(machine)
-        machine.communicate.test("test -r /etc/os-release && . /etc/os-release && test xubuntu = x$ID")
+        # This command detects if we are running on Ubuntu. /etc/os-release is
+        # available on modern Ubuntu versions, but does not exist on 14.04 and
+        # previous versions, so we fall back to lsb_release.
+        #
+        #   GH-7524
+        #   GH-7625
+        #
+        machine.communicate.test <<-EOH.gsub(/^ {10}/, "")
+          if test -r /etc/os-release; then
+            source /etc/os-release && test xubuntu = x$ID
+          elif test -x /usr/bin/lsb_release; then
+            /usr/bin/lsb_release -i 2>/dev/null | grep -q Ubuntu
+          else
+            exit 1
+          fi
+        EOH
       end
     end
   end

and run the following command to apply the patch

sudo patch -p1 --directory /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.5/ < vagrant-guest.patch

Just replace /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.5 (or /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/vagrant-1.8.5/plugins/guests/ubuntu/guest.rb) with your vagrant folder installation