"The machine with the name 'c6401' was not found configured for this Vagrant environment." Error

Question

I plan to work with Apache Ambari. To start, I've done everything according to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Quick+Start+Guide. But whenever I try to start vms, I get following error:

The machine with the name 'c6401' was not found configured for
this Vagrant environment.

Answer 1

Had this error today on mac and decided to update this post with the solution that worked for me.

Steps

1. Delete all redundant machine folders ./.vagrant/machines (.vagrant folder is a hidden folder within the repo)

2. Run vagrant global-status --prune command in the root of the project

3. Destroy vagrant setup vagrant destroy

4. Ensure no related machine exists in the virtualbox UI

5. Run vagrant up again

cheers!

Answer 2

Please open the VagrantFile under the centos6.4 directory and verify if you see contents like this:

  config.vm.define :c6401 do |c6401|
# uncomment the line below to set up the ambari dev environment
# c6401.vm.provision :shell, :path => "dev-bootstrap.sh"
c6401.vm.hostname = "c6401.ambari.apache.org"
c6401.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.64.101"
end

I had faced a similar issue. The problem was that I had deleted the Vagrantfile that comes by default with ambari-vagrant.git and had run 'vagrant init', which creates a standard template file that doesn't have any reference to c6401 machine. If you are on the same boat, just do a

git checkout centos6.4/VagrantFile

from under ambari-vagrant directory and try re-running

vagrant up c6401