Easiest way to copy a single file from host to Vagrant guest?

Question

I have a use case where I occasionally want to copy a single file from my host machine to the Vagrant guest.

I don\'t want to do so via traditional provisioners (Pup

Answer 1

An alternative way to do this without installing anything (vagrant-scp etc.) Note that the name default needs to be used as is, since vagrant ssh-config emits that.

vg_scp() {
  tmpfile=$(mktemp /tmp/vagrant-ssh-config.XXXX)
  vagrant ssh-config > $tmpfile
  scp -F $tmpfile "$@"
  rm $tmpfile
}

# Copy from local to remote
vg_scp somefile default:/tmp

# Copy from remote to local
vg_scp default:/tmp/somefile ./

# Copy a directory from remote to local
vg_scp -r default:/tmp ./tmp

The function would not be necessary if scp -F =(vagrant ssh-config) ... would have worked across shells. But since this is not supported by Bash, we have to resort to this workaround.

Answer 2

Vagrant provides a way to execute a command over ssh instead of logging in, so for Linux host and guest you can use:

• from host to guest:

cat ~/file_on_host.txt | vagrant ssh -c 'cat - > ~/file_on_guest.txt'

• from guest to host:

vagrant ssh -c 'cat ~/file_on_guest.txt' > ~/file_on_host.txt

No need for plugins or guest reloads. Just make sure to provide vagrant box ID to 'vagrant ssh' if you are not in the same dir as the Vagrantfile. Tested on Vagrant v1.8.1.

Answer 3

Here is my approach to the problem:

Step 1 - Find the private key, ssh port and IP:

root@vivi:/opt/boxes/jessie# vagrant ssh-config
Host default
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2222
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile /root/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

Step 2 - Transfer file using the port and private key as parameters for scp:

  scp -P 2222 -i /root/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key \
  someFileName.txt vagrant@127.0.0.1:~

I hope it helps,

Answer 4

Best way to copy file from local to vagrant, No need to write any code or any thing or any configuration changes. 1- First up the vagrant (vagrant up) 2- open cygwin 3- cygwin : go to your folder where is vagrantfile or from where you launch the vagrant 4- ssh vagrant 5- now it will work like a normal system.

Answer 5

The best ans for me is to write the file / directory(to be copied) to the vagrant file directory, now any file present there is available to vagrant in path /vagrant.

That's it, no need of scp or any other methods,

similarly you can copy any file from VM to host by pasting in /vagrant directory.

Answer 6

You can add entry in ~/.ssh/config:

Host vagrant
    User vagrant
    HostName localhost
    Port 2222
    IdentityFile /home/user_name/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

and the simplescp file vagrant:/path/. You can find path to identity file using the vagrant ssh-config command.