I have been able to develop Laravel applications on my Windows 10 environment for quite some time using Homestead. Recently, I have been getting errors when loading up the dev environment. The following error is happening.
Timed out while waiting for the machine to boot. This means that
Vagrant was unable to communicate with the guest machine within
the configured (“config.vm.boot_timeout” value) time period.If you look above, you should be able to see the error(s) that
Vagrant had when attempting to connect to the machine. These errors
are usually good hints as to what may be wrong.If you’re using a custom box, make sure that networking is properly
working and you’re able to connect to the machine. It is a common
problem that networking isn’t setup properly in these boxes.
Verify that authentication configurations are also setup properly,
as well.If the box appears to be booting properly, you may want to increase
the timeout (“config.vm.boot_timeout”) value.
Sometimes the project would load on the browser, sometimes it won’t. Sometimes I can SSH into the VM sometimes, it would time out with this error.
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset
I use the same environment settings on Linux and macOS and have no issues running the environment. I’m guessing it could be permissions as Windows is different than *nix OS.
A solution I found was to enable GUI mode so that you can see what the VM is doing. If it’s getting stuck somewhere or if the system is waiting for a prompt to be answered. Here is a link that describes how to enable it https://stackoverflow.com/a/23742373/3893181. In my case, my config file did not have it commented out. I had to add it inside the Vagrant.configure block, at the bottom.
Now I’m able to see a message that may be causing my issue.
Restarting vagrant/homestead seems to work… sometimes. But what could be causing it is having Docker Desktop installed alongside Virtualbox. I feel that’s when the errors started.
Luckily, Laravel has a new tool in version 8 called Laravel Sail. This uses Windows 10 WSL2 and Docker Desktop. I have uninstalled vagrant and virtualbox and have been using Laravel Sail. It has been working flawlessly on Windows. Finally, I can now have a stable dev environment in Windows. Even NPM commands work.
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