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Adding an additional disk to a VirtualBox machine in Vagrant via the experimental disks feature
# Enable the experimental disks feature via environment variable, requires Vagrant >=2.2.8.
ENV["VAGRANT_EXPERIMENTAL"] = "disks"
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.disk :disk, name: "storage", size: "4GB"
end
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ghost commented Feb 26, 2021

yes - i did.

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It seems to be a version issue, "disks" was only added somewhere between 2.2.6 (what comes with Ubuntu 20.04LTS) and 2.2.14 (latest from HashiCopr) it seems. Too bad the documentation does not seem to bother to mention this :(

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simt2 commented Mar 1, 2021

The feature was added with Vagrant 2.2.8, I recommend to always track the newest stable via the debian package on the Downloads page. One might think that the message implies that the feature is already included, but that's apparently not how experimental features work - they're experimental after all :-)

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hholzgra commented Mar 1, 2021

Well, I'd says that's not how documentation should work, it should always tell what exact versions a feature is actually available in ... but maybe I'm spoiled by all the hours I spent on automating that for all the function reference pages the PHP manual back in the days ;)

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simt2 commented Mar 2, 2021

@hholzgra not sure what you're getting at. It's in the changelog and I'm pretty sure it's not included in the documentation before 2.2.8. I'll include it in this gist for other people finding this although it is just an unofficial example/note by myself.

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hholzgra commented Mar 2, 2021

I'm referring to https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/disks/usage ... no "Available starting with Vx.y.z" info there at all. Not complaining about your example, but about the way Vagrant online documentation is organized ...

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