Enabling GUI on Vagrant VirtualBox - undefined local variable

Question

I'm new to vagrant/homestead, and I'm trying to debug the box that was created using vagrant up as the connection is on a timeout loop. I'm trying to enable the GUI. I've tried adding the config from the vagrant site and every variation of it to my vagrantfile:

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
  v.gui = true
end

But whenever this is in there and I run vagrant up or reload, it just returns "Message: undefined local variable or method 'config' for main:Object"

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Make sure you are using latest Vagrant 1.6.3 and VirtualBox 4.3.12. The block looks fine. — Terry Wang, Jun 16 '14 at 00:21
Try placing the statement inside the "homestead.rb" file inside the "scripts" directory. That is where most of the VirtualBox settings are defined. — noeldiaz, Jun 16 '14 at 13:38

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '14 at 14:53

Recently I had the same problem, in my case this is because I put this code outside the main vagrant config block, try to put in the proper place like in example. First line define local variable config which used inside the block:

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  // other configs

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.gui = true
  end

end

Enabling GUI on Vagrant VirtualBox - undefined local variable

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