Vagrant cannot find VirtualBox, which is installed

[Todd S]

Hi All,

I just installed vagrant. I got it to 'vagrant up' and virtual box showed that is was running a vm called vagrant_default_blah_blah. But all subsequent vagrant commands failed stating "The provider 'VirtualBox' could not be found, but was requested to back the machine 'default'. Please use a provider that exists."

I have tried vagrant --provider=virtualbox and that does not work either and virtualbox is in the PATH.

Any pointers will be helpful.

This is on OS X 10.10.

Todd

[Todd S]

I solved my problem. I shutdown virtualbox through the virtualbox application and then removed the .vagrant folder all is fine now. Perhaps the contents of some file were damaged?

[Jasper F]

This helped me. Thanks Todd!

[Joaquin Menchaca]

You have a funked environment.  By deleting the .vagrant folder, you deleted the ids that reference the VirtualBox systems, and you deleted the private keys needed to access the system without a password with vagrant ssh.  As long as you still have the Vagrantfile, just do another "vagrant up" to create a new .vagrant.  I would recommend deleting the existing images, as this might confuse you as to which ones you are using.