call remove hosts on vagrant halt

[utrotzek]

Hi,

I'd suggest to call the hosts cleanup task also on vagrant halt in addition to vagrant destroy. Because if the vm is down, the host entries don't make sense (in my opinion)

This would be similar to vagrant's core behaviour for the host entry.

Thanks for sharing this ext! ;)

kind regards

[pbitty]

Hi @weed0r23, unfortunately this is not doable in a reliable way because vagrant doesn't distinguish between machine states when giving us the list of machines that we put in the hosts file. Vagrant only distinguishes between 'created' and 'not created'. So even if we had a task set up on vagrant halt we would still get the same list of machines from vagrant.

While there is a way to query the machine state (as you can see when you run vagrant status), each vagrant provider is free to return its own state string, eg. virtualbox returns 'running', while rackspace returns 'active'.

I'm closing this for now, but feel free to reopen if you find a solution and you want to discuss it.

[arm4b]

While there is a way to query the machine state (as you can see when you run vagrant status), each vagrant provider is free to return its own state string, eg. virtualbox returns 'running', while rackspace returns 'active'.

Maybe it's possible to add at least partial support for some well-known or frequently used down statuses. Here is my example:

vagrant up status:

D:\Work>vagrant status
Current machine states:

default                   running (virtualbox)

vagrant halt status:

D:\Work>vagrant status
Current machine states:

default                   poweroff (virtualbox)

vagrant suspend status:

D:\Work>vagrant status
Current machine states:

default                   saved (virtualbox)

[krak3n]

https://github.com/cogitatio/vagrant-hostsupdater - seems to handle it fine.