While trying to install homestead machine for Laravel, got some annoying issue: failed to mount shared folders. I had vagrant installed earlier with different version than homestead, causing the problem.
The output from ‘homestead up’ was:
$ homestead up /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.7.4/lib/vagrant/pre-rubygems.rb:31: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777 /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/bundler-1.10.5/lib/bundler/shared_helpers.rb:78: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777 Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Checking if box 'laravel/homestead' is up to date... ==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports... ==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces... ==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration... default: Adapter 1: nat default: Adapter 2: hostonly ==> default: Forwarding ports... default: 443 => 44300 (adapter 1) default: 3306 => 33060 (adapter 1) default: 5432 => 54320 (adapter 1) default: 80 => 8080 (adapter 1) default: 81 => 8181 (adapter 1) default: 86 => 8686 (adapter 1) default: 82 => 8282 (adapter 1) default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1) ==> default: Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations... ==> default: Booting VM... ==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes... default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222 default: SSH username: vagrant default: SSH auth method: private key default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying... ==> default: Machine booted and ready! Got different reports about installed GuestAdditions version: Virtualbox on your host claims: 5.0.4 VBoxService inside the vm claims: 4.3.6 Going on, assuming VBoxService is correct... GuestAdditions seems to be installed (4.3.6) correctly, but not running. Got different reports about installed GuestAdditions version: Virtualbox on your host claims: 5.0.4 VBoxService inside the vm claims: 4.3.6 Going on, assuming VBoxService is correct... Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ...fail! (modprobe vboxsf failed) Got different reports about installed GuestAdditions version: Virtualbox on your host claims: 5.0.4 VBoxService inside the vm claims: 4.3.6 Going on, assuming VBoxService is correct... Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done. Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done. Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules The headers for the current running kernel were not found. If the following module compilation fails then this could be the reason. Building the main Guest Additions module ...done. Building the shared folder support module ...fail! (Look at /var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went wrong) Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. Restarting VM to apply changes... ==> default: Attempting graceful shutdown of VM... ==> default: Booting VM... ==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes... default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222 default: SSH username: vagrant default: SSH auth method: private key default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying... ==> default: Machine booted and ready! ==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM... default: The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of default: VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can default: prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see default: shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the default: virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on default: your host and reload your VM. default: default: Guest Additions Version: 5.0.4 default: VirtualBox Version: 4.3 ==> default: Setting hostname... ==> default: Configuring and enabling network interfaces... ==> default: Mounting shared folders... default: /vagrant => /Users/shafiul/source/ws_ui_vagrant Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually because the "vboxsf" file system is not available. Please verify that the guest additions are properly installed in the guest and can work properly. The command attempted was: mount -t vboxsf -o uid=`id -u vagrant`,gid=`getent group vagrant | cut -d: -f3`, vagrant /vagrant mount -t vboxsf -o uid=`id -u vagrant`,gid=`id -g vagrant`, vagrant /vagrant The error output from the last command was: /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
Digging into the error message, found clue in below lines:
Virtualbox on your host claims: 5.0.4 VBoxService inside the vm claims: 4.3.6
So, I decided to install VBoxGuestAdditions 5.0.4 in both host and guest.
In some cases, it has been observed that only running the below command solves the problem:
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
and then run homestead up again.
In case, the error persists, then follow the below steps, which I had to follow to run my homestead machine.
Though the mounting of shared folder failed while starting vm, but vm started successfully. I needed to ssh into vm by homestead ssh and run the following commands inside vm to install dependencies for VBoxGuestAdditions:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install linux-generic $ sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) $ sudo apt-get install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers $ sudo apt-get install kernel-devel $ sudo apt-get install kernel-pae-devel $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
I am not sure if the last line was needed, please try without it, and see if you get error in next step.
Inside the vm:
$ cd /opt $ ls VBoxGuestAdditions-4.3.6 VBoxGuestAdditions-5.0.4
but the later was empty. So I needed to download and install it.
$ cd /opt/ $ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.4/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.4.iso $ sudo mount VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.4.iso -o loop /mnt $ sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Output should be like below: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.0.4 Guest Additions for Linux............ VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 4.3.6 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... Copying additional installer modules ... Installing additional modules ... Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done. Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done. Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules ...done. Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used $ cd /opt/ $ sudo umount /mnt $ rm -rf *.iso
In my host mac(yosemite), I had to install the new GuestAdditions
$ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.4/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.4.iso $ sudo mv /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso ~/.homestead $ sudo cp VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.4.iso /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
You can remove VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in ~/.homestead dir.
Next step is updating the vagrant version to 5.0.4. Link to installer: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.4/VirtualBox-5.0.4-102546-OSX.dmg
And then finally homestead machine ran successfully.
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