Bringing up a VirtualBox VM requires elevated session when VMware plugin installed

[Paul Broadwith]

When you try to use:

vagrant up

or

vagrant up --provider=virtualbox

and you are NOT in an elevated session you get:

Vagrant failed to initialize at a very early stage:

Failed to invoke the VMware utility task.

  Cause: ERROR: Access is denied.

Please address the issue above and try again. If
this problem persists, please contact support@hashicorp.com

This is with the vmware plugin installed and the environment variable `VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER` set to `virtualbox`.

My issue is not so much that you need to use an elevated session but why I need to use an elevated session when prior to installing the vmware plugin it wasn't necessary. Vagrant appears to want to use the VMware plugin (which launches a vmware tool which requires admin rights) for something even though it's not bringing a VMware box.

Is this normal behaviour?

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

If you are using the vagrant-vmware-* plugin

please email support @ hashicorp.com

Thanks

alvaro.

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Alvaro