How to detect which OS type the current guest is in the Vagrantfile

Question

I'd like to have one Vagrantfile for multiple different OS types (e.g. windows and linux). I'm currently attempting to do something like this:

...
if config.vm.guest.to_s == "windows"
    # ... do something windows specific
else
    # ... do something linux specific
end

However, config.vm.guest returns an Object instance, not a string or a symbol, even though it was set in the base box Vagrant file (i.e. config.vm.guest = :windows).

How can I do this?

no, I didn't. I added more logic in my code that is using vagrant so I know which type of OS it is `:^/` — d0c_s4vage, Oct 08 '15 at 22:37
And what was the "more logic"? Please share. I need to detect if os type is windows then do something which is not not required in case of other OS. — Sam, May 05 '16 at 17:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '16 at 20:12

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I'll bet you're trying to do this in a ~/.vagrant.d/Vagrantfile. The problem is that ~/.vagrant.d/Vagrantfile is run before the Vagrantfile in your current directory.

So it cannot know anything about the configuration before hand.

answered Jul 28 '16 at 20:12

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How to detect which OS type the current guest is in the Vagrantfile

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