Check automatically during vagrant up

The next time you run vagrant up it will check if there is a newer version of the box available and will tell you:

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Checking if box 'szabgab/pde' is up to date...
==> default: A newer version of the box 'szabgab/pde' is available! You currently
==> default: have version '1.0.0'. The latest is version '1.1.0'. Run
==> default: `vagrant box update` to update.
...

then it will go on and launch the VirtualBox image with the old box.

Check manually if VirtualBox is outdated

Alternatively we can check it manually.

Open the terminal (or Command Window on MS Window) and cd to the directory where you have created the Vagrant environment. (The directory with the Vagrantfile.)

In original setup I used a directory called try

Once in the directory type

$ vagrant box outdated

I got the following output:

Checking if box 'szabgab/pde' is up to date...
A newer version of the box 'szabgab/pde' is available! You currently
have version '1.0.0'. The latest is version '1.1.0'. Run
`vagrant box update` to update.

You will probably see some similar message.

This means the box you have is not the latest one.

Update box

The following command will download the newest version of Perl Development Environment. It is a 1.25Gb file. It will take some time.

$ vagrant box update

This command has updated the box on your system, but your are still using a copy of the old box.

In order to start using the new copy you have to destroy your version of the old box.

Warning!!!

This will destroy everything you put on the VirtualBox, excapt the files that you put in the /vagrant directory which is actually on your host computer.

$ vagrant destroy

Using new version

In order to start using the new version you have to type

$ vagrant up

again.

Then you can ssh to the machine again using

$ vagrant ssh

as you did earlier.