diff --git a/plugins/commands/serve/util/exception_transformer.rb b/plugins/commands/serve/util/exception_transformer.rb
index 23ec9cd6a..c9c900b72 100644
--- a/plugins/commands/serve/util/exception_transformer.rb
+++ b/plugins/commands/serve/util/exception_transformer.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+require 'google/rpc/error_details_pb'
+
 module VagrantPlugins
   module CommandServe
     module Util
diff --git a/vagrant.gemspec b/vagrant.gemspec
index afbd285af..2257ed733 100644
--- a/vagrant.gemspec
+++ b/vagrant.gemspec
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency "childprocess", "~> 4.1.0"
   s.add_dependency "ed25519", "~> 1.2.4"
   s.add_dependency "erubi"
+  s.add_dependency 'googleapis-common-protos-types', '~> 1.3'
   s.add_dependency "grpc"
   s.add_dependency "hashicorp-checkpoint", "~> 0.1.5"
   s.add_dependency "i18n", "~> 1.8"