Best way to centralize downloaded boxes among all users of a host system (like putting .vagrant.d dir on a network store)

[barry higgins]

I'd like to conserve storage space for multiple users downloading the same vagrant boxes. Normally, each user will have a .vagrant.d directory in the home directory, and the .vagrant.d directory will have the downloaded box. So if I have 2 users on a linux host, and each user runs `vagrant box add "hashicorp/bionic64"`, then there will be two copies of the hashicorp/bionic64 box on the system. My goal is to have a central location on the system so that if two users run `vagrant box add "hashicorp/bionic64"`, only one copy will be saved on disk (and downloaded).

Thanks.

[JP Toto]

You can set the VAGRANT_HOME environment variable for each user https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/other/environmental-variables.html#vagrant_home which will override the /.vagrant.d/ home. I'm not _entirely_ sure you're going to want to do that for multiple users to share but it's worth trying out.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:32 PM barry higgins <jorda...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to conserve storage space for multiple users downloading the same vagrant boxes. Normally, each user will have a .vagrant.d directory in the home directory, and the .vagrant.d directory will have the downloaded box. So if I have 2 users on a linux host, and each user runs `vagrant box add "hashicorp/bionic64"`, then there will be two copies of the hashicorp/bionic64 box on the system. My goal is to have a central location on the system so that if two users run `vagrant box add "hashicorp/bionic64"`, only one copy will be saved on disk (and downloaded).

Thanks.

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[barry higgins]

Great! Thank you.

I also wasn't sure it would work, but looks like this github gist that does exactly what I needed has plenty of satisfied users/forks:

https://gist.github.com/michaelklapper/4943139

Quoting the gist:

Reconfigure VirtualBox and Vagrant home directory for Windows Set VirtualBox home directory to: C:\VMs Store vagrant boxes: C:\VMs\vagrant.d

# VirtualBox home directory.
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" setproperty machinefolder "C:\VMs"
# Vagrant home directory for downloadad boxes.
REG ADD HKCU\Environment /v VAGRANT_HOME /t REG_SZ /d "C:\VMs\vagrant.d"