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geo derek
geo derek

Reputation: 395

vboxmanage.exe error could not rename the directory

I am using VirtualBox 4.2.18 and Vagrant 1.3.3 on Window 7. I have done a vagrant box add

vagrant box add MyBox http://ergonlogic.com/files/boxes/debian-LAMP-current.box

But, when I get to the step of vagrant up I get the following error: "vboxmanage.exe error could not rename the directory..."

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Derek

Upvotes: 13

Views: 20745

Answers (16)

Albert George
Albert George

Reputation: 391

Please follow the instructions below if none of the above solution worked:

  1. Delete everything inside C:\Users{PC}\VirtualBox VMs (replace PC with your PC Name)
  2. Delete .vagrant.d under C:\Users{PC} folder
  3. Open VirtualBox Manager and remove any instance from the left sidebar by right clicking.
  4. Open the cmd as administrator.
  5. Go to C:\Users{PC}\Homestead and run vagrant up again.

Upvotes: 0

Suman Kharel
Suman Kharel

Reputation: 1090

In windows OS, if none of these solution works, try to run the command in PowerShell as Administrator.

Upvotes: 0

Tóth Krisztián Gyula
Tóth Krisztián Gyula

Reputation: 186

On Windows 10 using VirtualBox v6.1.26 I encountered the same problem.

Here is how I could re-create the VM after a broken vagrant destroy

Try:

  1. Run vagrant destroy -f
  2. Check the available machines with vagrant global-status --prune
  3. Find the VMs folder in C:/Users/your_username/.VirtualBoxMachines and try deleting the one with the name of your machine using the file explorer manually
    • If you cannot delete the folder (some processes has open files with in it), try restarting your computer and delete then
  4. Now it should work again with vagrnat up

This worked for me!

Upvotes: 1

NTIC TECH
NTIC TECH

Reputation: 116

i don't know how it works but i just kill the process of VB like the Following image and i run 'vagrant reload'

kill process

Upvotes: 0

Macdonald
Macdonald

Reputation: 964

On Ubuntu 20.04

First, run

vagrant destroy

Go to this directory

/home/your_username/VirtualBox VMs

This step deletes all your VMs:

Delete all files and directories in that directory like so

rm -rf *

And then run

vagrant up

Upvotes: -1

Vladimir Remeniuk
Vladimir Remeniuk

Reputation: 31

Thing that worked for me:

1) I had to manually delete C:\Users\My_name\VirtualBox VMs\machine_name folder.
2) To prevent this from happening again, before 'vagrant destroy' command I always stop current machine with 'vagrant suspend'.

Upvotes: 3

Mãx Døpë
Mãx Døpë

Reputation: 1

Gentleman and ladies oh no. Just go to the vagrant file change the file vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name", "oracle", "--memory", "512", "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]

change the name variable as it conflicts with another 'installed' or failed to 'installed' vagrantbox. the new Vagrantfile should be like: vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name", "oracle2", "--memory", "512", "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]

Upvotes: -1

Hansa
Hansa

Reputation: 1

  1. vagrant destroy -f

  2. find the folder VirtualBox VMs --> delete the machine you want to rename

  3. Run vagrant up in your project root

This worked for me!

Upvotes: 0

GrigorAtaryan
GrigorAtaryan

Reputation: 473

You Just need find your folder called VirtualBox VMs

In that folder should see your machines enter image description here

And rename what folder you want, and run:

vagrant up

So you have run it successfully.

Upvotes: 0

dardarlt
dardarlt

Reputation: 1209

Don't destroy your vagrant machine! This is a last option.

Write in you console:

VBoxManage list vms

Copy id of your machine, something like:

7fca07b2-65c6-420e-84b5-b958c15449a1

Open your vagrant machine id file, something like:

.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/id

Replace with id you just copied and do:

Vagrant up

This allways works for me. If not, only as last option you can try: vagrant destroy -f

Upvotes: 1

michaelbahr
michaelbahr

Reputation: 4963

Vagrant

Working with Vagrant I had a similar error. This was due to naming conflicts. What solved it for me was to remove the name of the instance from the Vagrantfile.

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id,
              "--name", "oracle",
              "--memory", "512",
              "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]

Change that to

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id,
              "--memory", "512",
              "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]

Upvotes: 0

LoveAndHappiness
LoveAndHappiness

Reputation: 10135

I went to the Directory

VirtualBox VMs

And deleted everything inside. Then I just did vagrant up, and it worked.

Upvotes: 13

RonnyKnoxville
RonnyKnoxville

Reputation: 6394

I tried:

  • vagrant destroy -f
  • manually deleting the virtualboxes in their directory
  • restarting my machine
  • reinstalling both vagrant and virtualbox
  • downgrading vagrant and virtualbox
  • running with sudo

and nothing worked. The only thing that worked for me was opening Virtualbox interface and going to Preferences and changing the Default Machine Folder from VirtualBox VMs to just VMs

Wasted about 4 hours of my time on that problem. Hopefully someone with the same problem finds this post.

Upvotes: 43

Özgür
Özgür

Reputation: 8247

That error means there is other VM in Virtual Machine with the same name as the one you used for this VM. So go back to the folder of that VM you run previously and destroy it with "vagrant destroy -f". Then try again running this VM.

Upvotes: 0

delmoras
delmoras

Reputation: 83

I just removed every sub folder under this folder and it worked

Upvotes: 1

geo derek
geo derek

Reputation: 395

I was finally able to figure this out. Turns out it is useful to know how to set two specific directory paths for VirtualBox. This was particularly useful because I run my machine under an account that does not have administrative privileges. So I needed to get VirtualBox to used directory paths which I had access to security-wise. The first is the VBOX_USER_HOME environment variable which can be done within the System Properties/Environment Variables on Windows 7. In this way the VBOX_USER_HOME variable will control where the .VirtualBox directory goes. Secondly, set where the *.vbox files goes which is typically a directory called VirtualBox VMs. To set this path open the VirtualBox GUI and go to File  Preference and set the path at the Default Machine Folder input box.

Hopefully this info will help others.

Derek

Upvotes: 3

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