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Douglas Marriott
Douglas Marriott
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Posted by Douglas Marriott
Douglas Marriott
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Error with vagrant up command

I am getting an error after I install vagrant and input the code vagrant up. It says, "There was an error while executing 'VBoxManage', a CLI used by Vagrant for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is show below....

Any ideas on why this is happening and how to get it installed??

Stderr: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% Interpreting /Users/Marriott/.vagrant.d/boxes/treehouse-rails4/0/virtualbox/box.ovf... OK. 0%...10%... Progress state: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR VBoxManage: error: Appliance import failed VBoxManage: error: Could not create the clone medium '/Users/Marriott/VirtualBox VMs/Treehouse_1396320930267_88917/box-disk2.vmdk'. VBoxManage: error: VMDK: Compressed image is corrupted '/Users/Marriott/.vagrant.d/boxes/treehouse-rails4/0/virtualbox/box-disk2.vmdk' (VERR_ZIP_CORRUPTED) VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component Appliance, interface IAppliance VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleImportAppliance(HandlerArg*)" at line 779 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp

Douglas Marriott
Douglas Marriott
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Douglas Marriott
Douglas Marriott
3,555 Points

The stderr error code is above

2 Answers

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Is there enough free space on the hard drive you're trying to run it on? And do you have permission to write to it?

James Barnett
James Barnett
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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

According to the log output you posted, it looks to me that the virtual disk file box-disk2.vmdk is corrupted, try re-downloading the files and trying again.