Very common situation when you need to perform one-time operation of copying some file or a directory between Vagrant host and guest VM and you don’t want to waste time on mounting shared volumes or performing traditional provisioning with built-in file provisioner or some configuration management tool.
In the following article i will show the easiest way to copy files and folders between Vagrant host and guest VM using vagrant-scp plugin.
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Copy Files Between Vagrant Host and Guest VM
vagrant-scp plugin requires vagrant-vbguest, so firstly it needs to install the dependency, otherwise you may get the error as follows:
Unable to resolve dependency: user requested ‘vagrant-vbguest (= 0.15.1)’
Install vagrant-vbguest and vagrant-scp:
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp
To copy a file or a directory between Vagrant host and guest VM you need to know the id or the name of a guest VM.
This information can be found in the output of the following command:
$ vagrant global-status
Copy file or directory from Vagrant host machine to guest VM:
$ vagrant scp <some_local_file_or_dir> <vm_name>:<some_path_on_vm>
Copy file or directory from guest VM to Vagrant host machine:
$ vagrant scp <vm_name>:<some_file_or_dir_on_vm> <some_local_path>