Associate a Vagrant project directory with an existing VirtualBox VM

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1. In the directory where your Vagrantfile is located, run the following command and copy the ID of your VM

VBoxManage list vms
=> "virtualMachine" {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}

2. Go to the Vagrant project configuration folder

cd .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox

3. Create a file called id without a newline and the ID of your VM xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

echo -n 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' > id

4. Run Vagrant with new config

vagrant up

VBoxManage list vms will list the virtual machines and their uuids without having to know the path to the particular vd