vagrant up fails if `VBoxManage showvminfo' contains non-UTF8 characters.

[hirayama-evolni]

HostOS: Windows8.1(Japanese)
Provider: VirtualBox 4.3.20

I just upgraded vagrant from 1.6.5 to 1.7.1, then vagrant up fails now.

C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.7.1/plugins/providers/virtualbox/driver/base.rb:387:in `gsub': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)

Full stack trace is here.

This is caused by VBoxManage showvminfo returns non-UTF-8 text, Shift_JIS for my case.

Take a look at this.
This is of a VM not created by vagrant, and whose snapshot name is in Japanese.

I tried to apply force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT") on r.stdout, it goes well, but it may not be a good idea.

Thanks.

[mitchellh]

Unfortunatey we're not actually sure how to fix these encoding issues. There is a very old meta-issue tracking these encoding issues. We'll fix them over time.

[Danita]

Workaround for people like me who encountered this error: rename your VMs and snapshots to remove non-ASCII characters.

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