How to copy file from a Vagrant machine to localhost

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I want to copy a local file from a Vagrant machine to my localhost, but I am getting an error message:

ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 22: Connection refused.

[user@localhost ceil]$ scp -p 2222 vagrant@127.0.0.1:/home/vagrant/devstack/local.conf .
cp: cannot stat ‘2222’: No such file or directory
ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1 port 22: Connection refused

I also tried using using localhost but still got the same error.

score 64 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '16 at 20:24

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Another option is cat the files to something local:

vagrant ssh -c "sudo cat /home/vagrant/devstack/local.conf" > local.conf

This should also work for files that require root permissions (something the vagrant SCP plugin doesn't seem to support).

answered Jul 12 '16 at 20:24

Jace Browning

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This was a really handy workaround for trying to get files off a vagrant box somebody else set up. – HopAlongPolly Feb 08 '19 at 13:49

Jakuje · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-01T15:07:27.627

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You should read the manual page for scp. The correct syntax is:

scp -P 2222 vagrant@127.0.0.1:/home/vagrant/devstack/local.conf .

The uppercase P is for "port". Lowercase is used to preserve modification times.

edited Mar 01 '17 at 15:07

answered Sep 05 '15 at 07:00

Jakuje

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copy file to vagrant machine : scp -i .vagrant/machines/your_machine_name/virtualbox/private_key -P 2222 /path/file vagrant@127.0.0.1: – Yi zhang Nov 22 '19 at 07:11

score 32 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 28 '16 at 15:42

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Get IdentityFile and Port by using

vagrant ssh-config

scp -i IdentityFile_file -P Port vagrant@127.0.0.1:/file_dir dist_dir e.g.

scp -i /Users/xxxxx/tmp/vagrant/centos_6.5/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key -P 2200  vagrant@127.0.0.1:/tmp/xxx .

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answered Mar 25 '16 at 07:51

SevenJ

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Thanks! The command vagrant ssh-config is really handy. – The Tran Mar 23 '22 at 13:41

score 11 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 13 '17 at 17:10

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As @SevenJ mentioned, ssh-config can provide all the info you need. But it's a lot easier to save it to a file and use that file, rather than constructing a complicated scp command. E.g.:

vagrant ssh-config > config.txt
scp -F config.txt default:/path/to/file .

Here I'm assuming your vagrant file doesn't override the machine name from "default". If it does, replace "default:" with ":".

answered Sep 13 '17 at 17:10

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As of vagrant 2.0, you can control the host name with `vagrant ssh-config --host my-host` – mzabaluev Apr 29 '18 at 21:31

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 13 '20 at 20:17

Another option like Dan linked to:

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-scp
   vagrant scp [vm_name]:<remote_path> <local_path

and if you need to do the opposite its

 vagrant scp <local_path> [vm_name]:<remote_path>

You can use vagrant status to get the name of the VM

Current machine states:

default                   running (virtualbox)

Where default is the name of the VM in my case.

score 5 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 28 '16 at 15:42

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This is a handy tool for anyone coming in via Google: Vagrant SCP

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answered Feb 24 '16 at 17:04

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 06 '20 at 20:14

Additional tools like scp or cat may not be necessary. Frederick Henri covered it here.

Essentially, cp [file] /var/www/[your vm]/.vagrant will copy the file to the .vagrant folder at your project root, where you can see and move the file in your desktop OS.

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