A VirtualBox machine with the name 'homestead' already exists

Question

Since homestead 2.0 homestead laravel has not been working

I don\'t know why \'homestead init\' creates a Homestead.yaml file in mydirectory/.homestead and not in

Answer 1

None of this worked for me. I was using an old dev machine

I attempted:

1. vagrant global-status > destroy any by id which you don't need or match what is conflicting

2. open virtualbox and remove + delete files for any which you don't need or are conflicting

What worked:

• locate your ~/.vagrant/machines/ or ~/.vagrant.d/boxes folder. In my case, it contained the conflicting vm and also a bunch of old left over vm machines which steps 1 & 2 did not remove for some reason.

• after clearing these, everything worked fine again, finally!

Answer 2

In my case the following article provide the solution. There was a folder named homestead inside the path /var/root/VirtualBox VMs/ that was causing the issue. Once this folder was removed, rm -r homestead, the issue was resolved. If you can not see or have access to this path execute the following commands in your terminal windows:

$ sudo -s 
$ cd /var/root/VirtualBox\ VMs

And proceed to delete the homestead folder.

Answer 3

I had the same issue today. Windows 10. I recently had updated Homestead, so the error was probably because of that. I tried it all, destroy, up, delete folders, whatever. Whenever I tried to run vagrant up, it was showing this kind of errors. The solution? After updating, I noticed that Homestead is now naming the boxes by the project folder name, and Homestead.yaml has all that infos. I just run that Homestead Windows configuration vendor\\bin\\homestead make and later them a vagrant up (before making sure it was all clean) and voilá, looks like the machine is booting now. =) Try that if you need it.

Answer 4

I'm a bit late to the party on this, but for anyone else having this issue SergioPeluzzi came closest, but didn't get the cigar with this:

Seek for vb.name = settings["name"] = "homestead" line and changed "homestead" to "HOMESTEAD" and "vói lá"

The line is actually:

vb.name = settings["name"] ||= "homestead"

As you can see from the bit that says settings["name"], you just need to add a name field to your Homestead YAML file, e.g.

memory: 2048
cpus: 1
provider: virtualbox
name: my-sexy-homestead-box

Answer 5

I solved this editing /Homestead_folder/scripts/homestead.rb

Seek for vb.name = settings["name"] = "homestead" line and changed homestead to HOMESTEAD and "vói lá" that worked for me.

Answer 6

Open VirtualBox GUI. See for your VM and remove it. It solved my problem.