Error setting up Vagrant with VirtualBox in PyCharm under OS X 10.10

Question

When setting up the remote interpreter and selecting Vagrant, I get the following error in PyCharm:

Can't Get Vagrant Settings: [0;31mThe provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine 'default' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The reason is shown bellow: Vagrant could not detect VirtualBox! Make sure VirtualBox is properly installed. Vagrant uses the `VBoxManage` binary that ships with VirtualBox, and requires this to be available on the PATH. If VirtualBox is installed, please find the `VBoxManage` binary and add it to the PATH environment variable.[0m

Now, from a terminal, everything works. I can do 'up' and ssh into the VM without issues. Ports are forwarded as well as local files. So the issue is only in PyCharm. I have installed Java 1.8

PATH is: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

which VBoxManage: /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage and works in terminal.

Note that this is a fresh install of OS X done this morning. Vagrant version is 1.7.3, VirtualBox is 4.3.30 and PyCharm is 4.5.3

Luigi · Answer 1 · 2016-08-12T00:12:25.547

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Another workaround:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/VBoxManage /usr/bin/VBoxManage

Edit:

Since it all worked some time ago, one of the following has to be cause of this problem:

either update of VirtualBox changed location of it's executable
or update of PyCharm changed PATH settings / executable location expectation for the IDE

Whatever the cause is, the solution is to make sure VBoxManage is in location expected by PyCharm. I haven't make up this solution myself, just googled it, but because it is so nice and clean I decided to add it here.

edited Aug 12 '16 at 00:12

answered Sep 16 '15 at 06:20

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You might want to elaborate a bit further why this helps. – simbabque Sep 16 '15 at 07:49
Thank you, this was the simple fix (for me). I appreciate it. – Dustin Hoffman Sep 28 '15 at 00:35
your link is 404'd – Jared Mackey Aug 11 '16 at 23:31
@electrometro well, I guess that page has passed away or moved. I've removed that link. – Luigi Aug 12 '16 at 00:13

score 23 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 09 '15 at 20:11

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Turns out, this problem is a known bug in PyCharm.

Until they fix it, you can get around the problem by launching PyCharm from a terminal window with the charm command.

Vagrant 1.7.3 and VirtualBox 4.3.30 under Pycharm 4.5: Path issue

edited Sep 09 '15 at 20:11

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answered Jul 14 '15 at 18:01

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This seems to also be true of their other IDE, like Rubymine and PhpStorm. – Max Lap Jul 16 '15 at 01:35
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For those who did not do a fresh install of 4.5.3 version (comes from an upgrade), you should go to Tools>Create a Command-Line Launcher to create "charm" command and go for the workaround. – danius Jul 17 '15 at 07:55
Thanks for this themaxx, and danigosa for the reminder on how to update the charm command. I have just spent 2 hours trying to figure this out, thought it was caused by an upgrade to vagrant 1.7.4 and virtualbox 5. – Alex Forbes Aug 04 '15 at 19:29

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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This helped me solve the issue:

https://github.com/Parallels/vagrant-parallels/issues/184

I can call this command where my vagrant file was located:

vagrant plugin update vagrant-parallels

Also, this link added some help for python paths

How to configure custom PYTHONPATH with VM and PyCharm?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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Error setting up Vagrant with VirtualBox in PyCharm under OS X 10.10

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