"the metadata associated with the box 'dummy' appears corrupted..."

[vagra...@gmail.com]

Hi, I'm running vagrant 1.7.2 on Centos 6.4 64-bit and when I try to bring up a box with the vsphere plugin, it gives the following error:

The metadata associated with the box 'dummy' appears corrupted.
This is most often caused by a disk issue or system crash. Please
remove the box, re-add it, and try again.

I copied this directory from a working vagrant install on another system (the vsphere plugin works properly there) and that may be the cause of the issue but I'm not sure why this would happen.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

try with just copying Vagrantfile

if you did copy the folder, chances are that you did also copy .vagrant* that is created on first vagrant up

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[vagra...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your suggestion. I did copy the folder initially, so after your suggestion I created a brand new directory and copied the Vagrantfile over, but no matter what I do it still gives the same error about metadata...

Any other ideas?
Thanks again,
Rob

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:28 AM, <vagra...@gmail.com> wrote:

The metadata associated with the box 'dummy' appears corrupted.

can you readd the dummy machine??

[vagra...@gmail.com]

I'm not sure what you mean by "readd". Just to clarify, I am using the instructions from this site to set this up:
https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere

And it works fine on my original system, following the same instructions.

- Rob

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

The plugin use a dummy box

 config.vm.box = 'dummy'
  config.vm.box_url = './example_box/dummy.box'

vagrant box list

that command should list a dummy box

perhaps is trying to read example_box/dummy.box and it's failing.. so make sure that file example_box/dummy.box is reachable as the path listed in config.vm.box_url

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