# Vagrant box rockylinux/8 fails for virtualbox provider with error VBOX\_E\_OBJECT\_NOT\_FOUND **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [December 12, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228 "2022-12-12T21:01:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jdeathe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jdeathe/32/2558_2.png) [@jdeathe](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jdeathe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228/1 "2022-12-12T21:01:23Z")
[https://app.vagrantup.com/rockylinux/boxes/8/versions/7.0.0](https://app.vagrantup.com/rockylinux/boxes/8/versions/7.0.0) OS: OSX 11.7 (BigSur) Vagrant: 2.3.4 Virtualbox: 7.0.4r154605 ```auto $ cat Vagrantfile Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "rockylinux/8" config.vm.box_version = "7.0.0" end ``` ```auto $ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Importing base box 'rockylinux/8'... There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below. Command: ["import", "-n", "/Users/jamesd/.vagrant.d/boxes/rockylinux-VAGRANTSLASH-8/7.0.0/virtualbox/box.ovf"] Stderr: 0%...VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND VBoxManage: error: Appliance read failed VBoxManage: error: Failed to open OVF file '/Users/jamesd/.vagrant.d/boxes/rockylinux-VAGRANTSLASH-8/7.0.0/virtualbox/box.ovf' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component ApplianceWrap, interface IAppliance VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleImportAppliance(HandlerArg *)" at line 510 of file VBoxManageAppliance.cpp ``` ```auto $ ls -la /Users/jamesd/.vagrant.d/boxes/rockylinux-VAGRANTSLASH-8/7.0.0/virtualbox/ total 2491288 drwxr-xr-x 7 jamesd staff 224 12 Dec 20:47 . drwxr-xr-x 3 jamesd staff 96 12 Dec 20:47 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 jamesd staff 72 12 Dec 20:46 .imagefactory-metadata.json -rw-r--r-- 1 jamesd staff 1273623040 12 Dec 20:47 Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox-8.7-20221121.0.x86_64.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 jamesd staff 592 12 Dec 20:46 Vagrantfile -rw-r--r-- 1 jamesd staff 244 12 Dec 20:46 info.json -rw-r--r-- 1 jamesd staff 50 12 Dec 20:46 metadata.json ``` ---
**Author:** ![jdeathe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jdeathe/32/2558_2.png) [@jdeathe](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jdeathe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228/2 "2022-12-16T19:19:40Z")
Any more info required here or anywhere else I should raise this bug report? ---
**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228/3 "2022-12-17T02:02:55Z")
Please try the latest image: - [http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86\_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox.latest.x86\_64.box](http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox.latest.x86_64.box) - [http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86\_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox-8.7-20221213.0.x86\_64.box](http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox-8.7-20221213.0.x86_64.box) This will also require UEFI for now. Unfortunately I don’t know how to tell vagrant to use VirtualBox’s UEFI implementation. ---
**Author:** ![jdeathe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jdeathe/32/2558_2.png) [@jdeathe](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jdeathe)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228/4 "2022-12-17T11:39:27Z")
To enable UEFI in VirtualBox 7.0 there’s info in the respective manuals: - [Oracle® VM VirtualBox User Manual for Release 7.0 - Chapter 3 Configuring Virtual Machines](https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/7.0/user/BasicConcepts.html#efi) - [Configuration - VirtualBox Provider | Vagrant | HashiCorp Developer](https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/providers/virtualbox/configuration#vboxmanage-customizations) To test the supplied fix: - Create Vagrantfile in working directory: ```auto Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "rockylinux/8" config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |domain| domain.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--firmware", "efi"] end end ``` - Create bugfix box metadata file named `box-metadata.json` in working directory: ```auto { "name" : "rockylinux/8", "description" : "Rocky Linux 8 7.0.0 Bugfix", "versions" : [ { "version" : "7.0.1-20221213.0", "providers" : [ { "name" : "virtualbox", "url" : "http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox-8.7-20221213.0.x86_64.box" } ] } ] } ``` - Add bugfix box: ```auto vagrant box add box-metadata.json ``` - Bring up the box: ```auto vagrant up ``` - Box runs without error. ```auto $ vagrant ssh -- "sudo cat /etc/rocky-release" Rocky Linux release 8.7 (Green Obsidian) ``` Thanks again @label ---
**Author:** ![tonyduan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/tonyduan/32/2900_2.png) [@tonyduan](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/tonyduan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228/5 "2023-03-23T03:54:04Z")
Thank you for composing this solution! It saves my day. I would like to mention some other useful information for others who run in to this issue. > [@jdeathe](#): > > - Create bugfix box metadata file named `box-metadata.json` in working directory: > > ```auto > { > "name" : "rockylinux/8", > "description" : "Rocky Linux 8 7.0.0 Bugfix", > "versions" : [ > { > "version" : "7.0.1-20221213.0", > "providers" : [ > { > "name" : "virtualbox", > "url" : "http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox-8.7-20221213.0.x86_64.box" > } > ] > } > ] > } > > ``` > > - Add bugfix box: > > ```auto > vagrant box add box-metadata.json > > ``` 1. another way is to just specify the `box_url`n Vagrantfile ```ruby Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box_url = ["http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/Rocky-8-Vagrant-Vbox-8.7-20230215.0.x86_64.box"] end ``` 1. [Boxes of rockylinux 8 on Vagrantcloud](https://app.vagrantup.com/rockylinux/boxes/8) seems not to be updated. It says the latest version of rockylinux 8 is created on 2022-12-06 We can check the latest available version of Vagrant box here: [Index of /pub/rocky/8/images/x86\_64/](http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/) The latest box of rockylinux 8 at the time of writing was uploaded on 2023-02-15, which is newer than the version on Vagrantcloud ---
**Author:** ![jdeathe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/jdeathe/32/2558_2.png) [@jdeathe](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jdeathe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228/6 "2023-04-18T16:05:59Z")
@label Would it be possible to update the versions hosted on Vagrant Cloud? There’s only 7.0.0 available and it seems there’s been a couple of iterations since that under [Index of /pub/rocky/8/images/x86\_64/](http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/images/x86_64/) ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/vagrant-box-rockylinux-8-fails-for-virtualbox-provider-with-error-vbox-e-object-not-found/8228/7 "2023-08-25T03:17:39Z")