Get current VirtualBox Status with Vagrant - virtualbox

Question

We did alot of stuff with Vagrant in the recent days, and there's a problem we encountered / didn't find any answer to. It's about checking the Status of the VirtualBox with Vagrant, for example:
if config.vmbox_status == 'running'
# do this stuff
end
If there is any easy way of checking / getting the current Virtual Box status let us know.

Answer 1

If you want to check running status with shell script. Try this code inside your project folder
vagrant status --machine-readable | grep state,running
Then check output string or exit code

Answer 2

You can use egrep to get current status (other answers check for certain statuses while this approach allows you to use case or if in scrips, like that (ugly and not-bullet proof!):
VM_STATUS=$(vagrant status --machine-readable | grep ",state," | egrep -o '([a-z_]*)$')
case "${VM_STATUS}" in
running)
echo "RUNNING"
;;
poweroff)
echo "POWEROFF"
;;
*)
echo "Unhandled: ${VM_STATUS}"
;;
esac

Answer 3

Or with the use of awk to get the VM's current state:
VM_STATUS=`vagrant status --machine-readable | grep ",state," | awk -F, '{print $4}'`
case "${VM_STATUS}" in
running)
echo "RUNNING"
;;
poweroff)
echo "POWEROFF"
;;
*)
echo "Unhandled: ${VM_STATUS}"
;;
esac

Answer 4

I am not sure if you want to do this within Vagrantfile necessarily but outside of it you can fire command vagrant status BOX_NAME and get the status of box. You will get text in following format:
Current VM states:
box2 running

Answer 5

change directory to location of VM: cd d:/vagant_boxes
run: vagrant status