Orphaned Virtual Machine

[Edward Cheadle]

I downloaded Ansible Tower and using Vagrant I created a Centos 7.1 VM running tower on VirtualBox 5.0.  Virtualbox is a bit unstable and the system crashed while the ansible tower vm was powered on.

After the crash I tried to restart the vm.  It seemed to lose the information on the current running version of Tower. I did a vagrant up from the original folder and it created a new VM.

I can still run the first Tower VM if I start if from Virtualbox.  I was wondering since I now have two instances of Tower, one with the license, the other without if there was a way to attach a vagrant file to the old one and use it.  I will be looking into it, I think I should be able to recover, but I am not sure were all of the information is kept, so if someone has already solved this issue, and can post the steps, it would save me some time.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

you can tell vagrant to use the other box, delete the box you don't want to keep

then run:
VBoxManage list vms

and get the id of the box you want to keep

go to the folder where you have the Vagrantfile

there is a folder called .vargant

you should be able to update this id on a file similar to :

.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id

after that, test with vagrant status and vagrant reload

Hope this helps

Alvaro

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[Edward Cheadle]

It worked.   I had an idea about how to fix it, but your post saved me a lot of time.