How to add a box for vagrant-vsphere about vagrant-vsphere

[marnovdm]

You should use git clone with that url and then use the tar cvzf dummy.box metadata.json to create the box.

[dmulter]

I've been using your plugin with my own created dummy.box per your instructions, but other cloud plugins (Rackspace, AWS) put a dummy.box in GitHub as well. I think this would make things easier for people to just refer back to this GitHub repo for the box when added. Your install instructions would be simpler too then. Just a humble suggestion...

[asifiqbal]

I could not get vagrant recognize the format of the dummy.box

I did run the tar cvzf dummy.box metadata.json (from example_box)

INFO box_add: Downloading box: file:/home/iqbala/vagrant/vsphere/dummy.box => /home/iqbala/.vagrant.d/tmp/box97889f4c4dd19cbbd15b248ae993807e8a5a4659
ERROR warden: Error occurred: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
INFO warden: Beginning recovery process...
INFO warden: Recovery complete.
ERROR warden: Error occurred: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
INFO warden: Beginning recovery process...
INFO warden: Recovery complete.
INFO environment: Running hook: environment_unload
INFO runner: Preparing hooks for middleware sequence...
INFO runner: 2 hooks defined.
INFO runner: Running action: environment_unload #Vagrant::Action::Builder:0x00000003395140
/home/iqbala/.vagrant.d/gems/gems/json-1.8.3/lib/json/pure/parser.rb:116:in `skip': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)