Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Read more...
Download homestead box using this link:
https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/boxes/homestead/versions/0.5.0/providers/virtualbox.box
NOTE: You can change the version of homestead box. Current version: 0.5.0.
After downloading the box, you will get a file named hc-download rename it to something like virtualbox.box or whatever name you like. Just don't forget to include the .box extension.
Now, you can add the downloaded box to vagrant:
vagrant box add laravel/homestead file:///c:/users/idecardo/downloads/virtualbox.box
NOTE: Change the path where you stored your downloaded box.
Navigate to vagrant directory:
c:/users/idecardo/.vagrant.d/boxes/laravel-VAGRANTSLASH-homestead
Create a metadata_url file and add this link:
https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/homestead
NOTE: Do not add a newline.
Rename folder 0 to 0.5.0
NOTE: 0.5.0 is you homestead box version.