vagrant up fails with a VBoxManage Invalid MAC address

[lmayorga1980]

First time fails but second time i execute vagrant up it just works fine.

Vagrant 1.4.2
VirtualBox 4.3.6

Gist: https://gist.github.com/lmayorga1980/8230516

[lmayorga1980]

Vagrant File https://gist.github.com/lmayorga1980/8238624 shipped as a template on the packer .json file.

[pdex]

I'm getting the same issue.

There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["modifyvm", "8a4ff65a-d73e-4b1b-bb86-ea9fa5d938f5", "--macaddress1", "{{ .BaseMacAddress }}"]

Stderr: VBoxManage: error: Invalid MAC address format
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component NetworkAdapter, interface INetworkAdapter, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "COMSETTER(MACAddress)(Bstr(ValueUnion.psz).raw())" at line 1663 of file VBoxManageModifyVM.cpp

https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/blob/master/post-processor/vagrant/virtualbox.go#L162-L166

It looks like Packer is adding this to the Vagrantfile that gets added to the box, but the template substitution isn't working. Is there a way to disable Packer's default Vagrantfile?

[pdex]

Nevermind, packer is doing the right thing, vagrant doesn't blow away the existing box Vagrantfile in .vagrant.d.

[pr0xr]

Yes this is a common issue for newer versions of packer using old embeddable vagrantfiles.

[liamjbennett]

I am still seeing this issue with:
Vagrant 1.4.3
Packer 0.5.1
Virtualbox 4.3

[pr0xr]

The issue must be fixed by user creating the vagrant box. The issue seems to happen when you embed vagrantfiles as a template with this setting:

config.vm.base_mac = "{{ .BaseMacAddress }}"

Remove, rebuild and the issue is gone.

[mitchellh]

This is fixed