Stderr: VBoxManage: error: Storage controller named 'SATA Controller' already exists

[ghost]

Hi all,

I have installed all other softwares in my CentOS8. Then when I tried to use "vagrant up" to deploy the environment, i received the following errors. I have two hard drives and I am not sure if it's related.

Bringing machine 'server2' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
Bringing machine 'repo' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
Bringing machine 'server1' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> server2: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
==> server2: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> server2: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
server2: Adapter 1: nat
server2: Adapter 2: hostonly
server2: Adapter 3: hostonly
server2: Adapter 4: hostonly
==> server2: Forwarding ports...
server2: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1)
==> server2: Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations...
A customization command failed:

["storagectl", :id, "--name", "SATA Controller", "--add", "sata", "--portcount", 2]

The following error was experienced:

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

Command: ["storagectl", "d03f3308-2840-4b76-8dd6-0c7ecd164829", "--name", "SATA Controller", "--add", "sata", "--portcount", "2"]

Stderr: VBoxManage: error: Storage controller named 'SATA Controller' already exists
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80bb000c), component SessionMachine, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "AddStorageController(Bstr(pszCtl).raw(), StorageBus_SATA, ctl.asOutParam())" at line 1080 of file VBoxManageStorageController.cpp

Please fix this customization and try again.

[adamdcameron]

I am getting the exact same error message as above.

[tonymwai]

Hi all.
I and new to rhcsa8env and recently installed it on an iMac. My first invocation of vagrant up worked just fine and I successfully shut down the environment. Every subsequent invocation of the command give me the same error as indicated above. I have resorted to manually starting the VM's (server 1, 2 and repo) via the VirtualBox GUI.

[brian926]

This may be a hackaround, but change line 19 so vagrant will check if disk-0-1.vdi on server2 already exists before trying to create the SATA Controller,,

server2.customize ['storagectl', :id, '--name', 'SATA Controller', '--add', 'sata', '--portcount', 2]

     unless File.exist?(file_to_disk1)
    	server2.customize ['storagectl', :id, '--name', 'SATA Controller', '--add', 'sata', '--portcount', 2]
      end

[tovoro]

Thank you, this seems to work for me