'vagrant up' fails to find VirtualBox

Immediate problem:

$ vagrant up --provider virtualbox
No usable default provider could be found for your system.

Vagrant relies on interactions with 3rd party systems, known as
"providers", to provide Vagrant with resources to run development
environments. Examples are VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V.

The easiest solution to this message is to install VirtualBox, which
is available for free on all major platforms.

If you believe you already have a provider available, make sure it
is properly installed and configured. You can see more details about
why a particular provider isn't working by forcing usage with
`vagrant up --provider=PROVIDER`, which should give you a more specific
error message for that particular provider.

Background:

Several days ago I installed VirtualBox Version 5.1.2 r108956 on my Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS x86_64 machine. Installation was successful. I subsequently successfully installed VirtualBox 5.1.2 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack.

I then followed instructions at https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/installing-freebsd-with-virtualbox/#! to install FreeBSD version 10.3 as a VM. I have successfully started, configured, utilized and stopped the FreeBSD VM many times since then.

I then decided to try to manage VirtualBox via Vagrant. I used 'apt-get' to install vagrant. The version of vagrant associated with Ubuntu 16.04 was 1.8.1. That version only works with VirtualBox up to VB's version 5.0; it would not support 5.1.2. I subsequently was able to install a newer version of vagrant from Debian testing:

$ apt-cache show vagrant
Package: vagrant
Version: 1.8.4+dfsg-2
...

$ vagrant --version
Vagrant 1.8.4

I was subsequently able to use Vagrant to add an OpenBSD box from Atlas:

$ vagrant box list
kaorimatz/openbsd-5.9-amd64 (virtualbox, 20160703.0.0)

According to this page from the Vagrant documentation, https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/providers/basic_usage.html, I should, at this point, have been able to launch the VM with Vagrant simply by saying:

$ vagrant up

However, when I did so, I got the error message displayed at the top of this gist. I have consistently gotten the same error message with this variants:

$ vagrant up --provider virtualbox

... and by adding:

config.vm.provider "virtualbox"

just before 'end' in my Vagrantfile.

What am I missing?

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Importing base box 'kaorimatz/openbsd-5.9-amd64'... ==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking... ==> default: Checking if box 'kaorimatz/openbsd-5.9-amd64' is up to date... ==> default: Setting the name of the VM: jkeenan_default_1470323055431_16333 ==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces... ==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration... default: Adapter 1: nat ==> default: Forwarding ports... default: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1) ==> default: Booting VM... ==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes... default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222 default: SSH username: vagrant default: SSH auth method: private key default: default: Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace default: this with a newly generated keypair for better security. default: default: Inserting generated public key within guest... default: Removing insecure key from the guest if it's present... default: Key inserted! Disconnecting and reconnecting using new SSH key... ==> default: Machine booted and ready! [~] 90 $ vagrant ssh OpenBSD 5.9 (GENERIC) #1761: Fri Feb 26 01:15:04 MST 2016 Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system. Please use the sendbug(1) utility to report bugs in the system. Before reporting a bug, please try to reproduce it with the latest version of the code. With bug reports, please try to ensure that enough information to reproduce the problem is enclosed, and if a known fix for it exists, include that as well. $ pwd /home/vagrant $ ls -al total 40 drwxr-xr-x 3 vagrant vagrant 512 Jul 3 15:39 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jul 3 15:49 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 87 Feb 26 08:07 .Xdefaults -rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 773 Feb 26 08:07 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 103 Feb 26 08:07 .cvsrc -rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 359 Feb 26 08:07 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 175 Feb 26 08:07 .mailrc -rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 218 Feb 26 08:07 .profile drwx------ 2 vagrant vagrant 512 Aug 4 15:04 .ssh -rw-r--r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 6 Jul 3 15:39 .vbox_version $

jkeenan/vagrant_up_failure.md

jkeenan commented Aug 4, 2016