How to copy file from a Vagrant machine to localhost

Question

I want to copy a local file from a Vagrant machine to my localhost, but I am getting an error message:

ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1

Answer 1

Get IdentityFile and Port by using

vagrant ssh-config

scp -i IdentityFile_file -P Port vagrant@127.0.0.1:/file_dir dist_dir e.g.

scp -i /Users/xxxxx/tmp/vagrant/centos_6.5/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key -P 2200  vagrant@127.0.0.1:/tmp/xxx .

Answer 2

You should read the manual page for scp. The correct syntax is:

scp -P 2222 vagrant@127.0.0.1:/home/vagrant/devstack/local.conf .

The uppercase P is for "port". Lowercase is used to preserve modification times.

Answer 3

Additional tools like scp or cat may not be necessary. Frederick Henri covered it here.

Essentially, cp [file] /var/www/[your vm]/.vagrant will copy the file to the .vagrant folder at your project root, where you can see and move the file in your desktop OS.

Answer 4

Another option is cat the files to something local:

vagrant ssh -c "sudo cat /home/vagrant/devstack/local.conf" > local.conf

This should also work for files that require root permissions (something the vagrant SCP plugin doesn't seem to support).

Answer 5

As @SevenJ mentioned, ssh-config can provide all the info you need. But it's a lot easier to save it to a file and use that file, rather than constructing a complicated scp command. E.g.:

vagrant ssh-config > config.txt
scp -F config.txt default:/path/to/file .

Here I'm assuming your vagrant file doesn't override the machine name from "default". If it does, replace "default:" with ":".

Answer 6

This is a handy tool for anyone coming in via Google: Vagrant SCP