How to install vagrant-vbguest plugin without Internet?

[Siew]

Hi Vagrant community

I installed vagrant-vbguest plugin successfully in a virtual box that is connected to Internet using "vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest".

I had to reproduce the above in my offline production environment and without internet, it did not work. 

Error was "Vagrant failed to load a configured plugin source... no such name (https://gems.hashicorp.com/specs.4.8.gz)".

How can I install VirtualBox guest additions offline? 

Many thanks in advance.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

to answer your question.

you could download the gem file and then try

vagrant plugin install <vagrant-vbguest.gem>

however the only thing this plugin does is to reinstall virtualbox guest additions if not detected, the operation on the vm may need internet, as the OS may need packages (perl gcc kernel-headers kernel-sources)

so i think will be better if you create your own box ready to use, and then on the machines without internet access you just use them

this will also make happier the end user as will be quicker

you can use packer tool to build boxes, and you can use bento boxes as sample starting points

https://packer.io/downloads.html

https://github.com/chef/bento

alvaro

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