Be part of JetBrains PHPverse 2026 on June 9 – a free online event bringing PHP devs worldwide together.
Hi, I've been having this problem for some time now: Homestead stops responding after working properly for some minutes.
I'm on Windows 10, latest Homestead, Vagrant and VirtualBox.
If i reset homestead on VirtualBox it works again for a bit. The same if I do "homestead halt" and "homestead up" in the terminal.
I have tried changing the ip from 192.168.10.10 to 192.168.56.0 but the same happens.
Any ideas? Thanks
Is it the entire VM that stops responding (i.e. you can't SSH in and nothing is served) OR is it a service from within homestead?
Check this thread for some possible solutions https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/homestead-mysql-stops-working-after-1-minute
Hi @braunson !
Yes, it's the entire VM. Can't ssh, can't ping, can't access any of the websites.
Thanks for the link. My problem is not MySQL related. If no solutions comes up I'll try vagrant destroy && vagrant up.
Thanks!
@nunomira Are you using the latest VirtualBox and Vagrant? Do you have WSL enabled? I know I've had issued in the past with WSL running and Vagrant.
Have you SSH'd into the virtual box to see if it's running out of/high on memory OR space? Try using htop for watching processes/memory. I'd start there and see if that's an issue (memory and/or space).
Hi @braunson , I have the latest everything. I have WSL enabled. Maybe that's the problem... Going to look into it. Memory or space shouldn't be the problem.
Thanks!
I disabled WSL enabled but it didn't solve the problem. vagrant destroy && vagrant up seems to have done the trick. Thanks @braunson !
Please or to participate in this conversation.