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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing the Treehouse VM on Windows

Posted by Programming Mentors
Programming Mentors
903 Points

Why doesn't the vm power up?

C:\treehouse λ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Importing base box 'treehouse-rails4'... ==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking... ==> default: Setting the name of the VM: treehouse_default_1410097036759_63095 ==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces... ==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration... default: Adapter 1: nat ==> default: Forwarding ports... default: 3000 => 3000 (adapter 1) default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1) ==> default: Booting VM... ==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes... The guest machine entered an invalid state while waiting for it to boot. Valid states are 'starting, running'. The machine is in the 'poweroff' state. Please verify everything is configured properly and try again.

If the provider you're using has a GUI that comes with it, it is often helpful to open that and watch the machine, since the GUI often has more helpful error messages than Vagrant can retrieve. For example, if you're using VirtualBox, run vagrant up while the VirtualBox GUI is open.

I'm running Windows 8.1 64bit, Virtual Box v4.3.14r95030

2 Answers

Håvard Stene Skjærvik
Håvard Stene Skjærvik
9,495 Points
Håvard Stene Skjærvik
Håvard Stene Skjærvik
9,495 Points

I got the same problem when I upgraded Virtualbox to the latest version. What I had to do was go to the drivers folder for virtualbox (in my case, C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers), then go into the \USB\filter folder and right click VBoxUSBMon.inf and select install, then the \vboxdrv\ folder and right click VBoxDrv.inf and select install.

I hear some have solved it by trying to repair the virtualbox install, while others have downgraded their virtualbox version and got it working.

Hopefully some of this works :)

timurtekbizel2
timurtekbizel2
5,201 Points
timurtekbizel2
timurtekbizel2
5,201 Points

try this . gem install vagrant-vbguest

then run vagrant up comment