title: Why is Vagrant trying to SSH to Windows guest?
body: <p>My host is running Windows 7 Pro (64 bit). The Guest OS in this case is Windows Server 2008 R2. The 'vagrant up' command is running into an issue where I keep getting:</p>
  
  <pre><code>****default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
  default: SSH username: vagrant
  default: SSH auth method: password
  default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying...
  default: Warning: Remote connection disconnect. Retrying...
  default: Warning: Remote connection disconnect. Retrying...
  default: Warning: Remote connection disconnect. Retrying...
  default: Warning: Remote connection disconnect. Retrying...****
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>till it eventually times out and says:</p>
  
  <p><strong>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.</strong></p>
  
  <p>The VM actually comes up fine, is accessible and usable.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Why is it trying to even SSH to the Windows machine?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My Vagrantfile contents are:</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <pre><code>Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  
    # Max time to wait for the guest to shutdown
    config.windows.halt_timeout = 60
  
    # Admin user name and password
    config.winrm.username = "Administrator"
    config.winrm.password = "Password"
  
    # Configure base box parameters
    config.vm.box = "BaseBox"
    config.vm.box_url = "./Base.box"
    config.vm.guest = :windows
    config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
      v.gui = true
    end
  
    # Port forward WinRM and RDP (changed values to NOT conflict with host)
    config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3389, host: 3391
    config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 5985, host: 5987, id: "winrm", auto_correct: true
  
  end
  </code></pre>
  
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