vagrant-hostmanager support for multi-machine Vagrantfile?

[rameshdharan]

Wondering if it’s possible to make vagrant-hostmanager play nicely with a multi-machine config, i.e. something like the form:

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
  config.vm.define "default", primary: true do |default|
     default.vm.hostname = "foo"
     default.hostmanager.enabled = true
     default.hostmanager.manage_host = true
     default.hostmanager.aliases = "bar"
     ...
  end

  config.vm.define "alternate", autostart: false do |alternate|
     alternate.vm.hostname = "foo"
     alternate.hostmanager.enabled = true
     alternate.hostmanager.manage_host = true
     alternate.hostmanager.aliases = "bar"
     ...
  end

I've tried the above with vagrant 1.7.4 and hostmanager 1.6.1 and found that the /etc/hosts entries are clobbering each other and not correct. Wondering if this is just because I'm doing it wrong, or if this type of thing is not actually supported?

[bibstha]

@rameshdharan shouldn't your configuration instead be

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
  config.hostmanager.enabled = true
  config.hostmanager.manage_host = true

  config.vm.define "default", primary: true do |default|
     default.vm.hostname = "foo"
     default.hostmanager.aliases = "fancy-name-foo"
     ...
  end

  config.vm.define "alternate", autostart: false do |alternate|
     alternate.vm.hostname = "bar"
     alternate.hostmanager.aliases = "fancy-name-bar"
     ...
  end

Does this fix it for you?

[czerasz]

Thx @bibstha this helped me a lot!

[seth-reeser]

@rameshdharan is there a reason why you have two machines with the same host name?

[primozcigler]

I figured this out by trial and error and I would love someone confirm: config.hostmanager.enabled = true will work only if configured at the topmost level.

So this will work: config.hostmanager.enabled = true

And this will not: somenode.hostmanager.enabled = true

If this is the case and correct, it would be great to include in the docs, as it might save people like me hours of debugging.

Thank you.