[SOLVED] Vagrant Not Starting Up. User that created VM doesn't match current user

Issue

I was trying to start up my vagrant machine, so I navigated to the folder where my vagrantfile is, and used:

vagrant up && vagrant ssh

but I got the following error message:

The VirtualBox VM was created with a user that doesn't match the current user running Vagrant. VirtualBox requires that the same user be used to manage the VM that was created. Please re-run Vagrant with that user. This is not a Vagrant issue.

The UID used to create the VM was: 0 Your UID is: 501

I also tried with sudo, but that didn't work either.

Do I need to switch UID's? And how would I do this?

Solution

I ran into the same problem today.
I edited my UID by opening the file .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/creator_uid and changing the 501 to a 0.

After I saved the file, the command vagrant up worked like a champ.

NB: the .vagrant folder is in the same directory as your Vagrantfile, where you ran vagrant up

Answered By - Fred

Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)