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as described on the title, will vagrant box update destroy my current VM? My current vagrant VM is a little too fragile and needs some time to setup after it has been destroyed.

On each vagrant up I get a message, that a newer version of my base box is available, but I hesitate to do so, because I need the current setup of my VM for daily work.

Am I safe to update?

Basster
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    My MySQL databases seem to be missing after `vagrant box update` ( https://stackoverflow.com/q/60286908/470749 ), so I won't be doing that in the future. – Ryan Feb 18 '20 at 20:53

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short answer is no vagrant box update only downloads and installs the new box it will NOT update any of your running Vagrant VMs.

You get the "new version box" message because check for updates on vagrant up is enabled by default. If you don't want to see it you can modify your Vagrant file by adding following line

config.vm.box_check_update = false

You have to explicitly destroy your machine and recreate it to use the updated box. Vagrant will NOT do that on its own.

Arek Czarnogłowski
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