Vagrant Warning: Connection timeout

May 21, 2014 Vagrant

Second time that I run into the same issue with Vagrant. If you get a connection timeout warning like the following after vagrant up, this can have various reasons.

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    default: Adapter 1: nat
==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
    default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying...

Virtualization of 64 bit is blocked

If you have a box with a 64 bit system. One reason can be, that your BIOS prevents you from the virtualization of a 64 bit system. Normally you can change this in the settings of your BIOS.