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Nicekiwi
Nicekiwi

Reputation: 4807

VMware and Homestead, The provider 'vmware_desktop' could not be found

I can't seem to get VMWare support working with Laravel's Homestead on Windows 7.

I've bought and installed VMWare Workstation and Vagrant's VMWare plugin and added the licence for it.

I've downloaded the homestead box via the command in the laravel docs vagrant box add laravel/homestead and selected option 2 for vmware_desktop.

And specified provider: vmware_desktop in my ~/.homestead/Homestead.yml file and run vagrant up from where I downloaded the Homestead Vagrant files.

And I get the message: 

C:\Users\Ezra\Desktop\Homestead>vagrant up
The provider 'vmware_desktop' could not be found, but was requested to
back the machine 'default'. Please use a provider that exists.

I've tried different provider names; like: vmware_fusion, vm_desktop, vm_fustion.. etc. Nothing works.

I've got the latest vmware_desktop image at v0.2.7 and visually verified the files exist in the ~/.vagrant.d/boxes directory.

VirtualBox provider works fine. But not VMware. Any ideas? :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3852

Answers (2)

Nicekiwi
Nicekiwi

Reputation: 4807

To get Homestead working on Windows, the provider must be set to:

provider: vmware_workstation

Made a PR to the laravel docs, so this shouldn't be an issue for anyone else going forward. :)

Upvotes: 2

Mohamed Salem Lamiri
Mohamed Salem Lamiri

Reputation: 6077

For Laravel 5 and Homestead 2.0

Try to run

homestead up

Then

homestead provision

This will reload your ~/.homestead/Homestead.yml for additional sites and/or configuration.

homestead

Upvotes: 0

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