I've recently checked out a project that hasn't been touched in 8 months.
On vagrant up-ing I'm finding that any connections made to the guest are ridiculously slow, for example 12 database CRUD operations are taking five minutes to execute against the database on the guest (and it's not the database operations taking the time).
I'm finding though if I ping stackoverflow from both the Windows host and the guest they're returning very similar times back.
Annoyingly there's been quite a few changes since I was last able to get this working due to the previous vagrant box not working. Changes are as follows:
Changing of the actual vagrant box from centos[6.5] to Centos/6
introduction of --natdnshostresolver1 and --natdnsproxy1 (to try fix this problem)
Addition of config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "virtualbox" (required or the vagrant up failed)
My vagrantfile is as follows:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "centos/6"
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
end
config.vm.hostname = "DEV"
config.vm.provision "shell" do |s|
s.path = "build.sh"
s.args = ["development"]
end
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "virtualbox"
config.vm.synced_folder "../releases", "/mnt/releases"
config.vm.synced_folder "../sites", "/mnt/releases/sites"
config.vm.synced_folder "../environment/components", "/mnt/components"
config.vm.synced_folder "../environment/scripts", "/mnt/scripts"
config.vm.synced_folder "../core", "/mnt/releases/core"
config.vm.synced_folder "../controller", "/mnt/releases/controller"
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 8000
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3306, host: 3306
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8080, host: 8080
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22000, host: 22000
end
Vagrant version is 1.9.2 (downgraded from 1.9.3 and 1.9.4)
Virtual box version is 5.1.18
So after lots and lots of searching it appears the problem is with VirtualBox rather than Vagrant.
I came across many posts which say adjust the nictype in the vagrant file like such. This is to adjust the virtual networking hardware provided by virtualbox.
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nictype1", "82540EM"]
end
Other suggestions were virtio and AMD, this feature and settings can be read in the official documentation here: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html.
However
This barely did anything for me if I'm honest.
After more digging I came across this article How to speed up virtual machines in VirtualBox enormously with a simple tweak which simply put 'switch power plans to boost performance'. I was skeptical, but I run a laptop on powersaver so i'd thought I might as well give it a go. It genuinely solved the problem.
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So I've been looking around a little bit for this issue, but maybe I lack something.
I freshly generated a Vagrant VM (With VirtualBox) but the files only seem to sync 1 time when the server loads/reloads.
I only have this in my configuration file, am I missing something here?
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "debian/stretch64"
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 25565, host: 25565
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.memory = "8192"
end
end
I also tried with
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant_files"
But that doesn't seem to change anything.
I don't have any errors on load, but the result is that when I add a file on the server, I don't see it in the project folder on my pc
I have the following Vagrantfile:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "centos/6"
config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "bootstrap.sh"
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 8080, guest: 80
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 3306, guest: 3306
config.vm.synced_folder "../../applications", "/var/www/html", :owner=>"apache", :group=>"apache"
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 2048]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
vb.name = "appserver"
end
end
Each time I run vagrant up (for first time, let's say that first I ran vagrant destroy -f) I end up with the following error:
==> default: Mounting shared folders...
default: /vagrant => E:/Development/vagrant/centos6
default: /var/www/html => E:/Development/applications/arx
Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders. This is usually
because the filesystem "vboxsf" is not available. This filesystem is
made available via the VirtualBox Guest Additions and kernel module.
Please verify that these guest additions are properly installed in the
guest. This is not a bug in Vagrant and is usually caused by a faulty
Vagrant box. For context, the command attempted was:
id -u apache
The error output from the command was:
id: apache: No such user
The error is pretty clear "apache user does not exists". As I am seeing this there is two or "three" ways to fix this:
By removing the :owner=>"apache", :group=>"apache" portion from the synced_folder. This is a BIG no, at least for me because if I remove them then the folder will be owned by vagrant which will/could cause issues while apache tries to read something from /var/www/html.
By commenting the line config.vm.synced_folder, getting up the box so everything gets installed and setup, then shutting down the box and getting up again with the line uncommented: it works but still an ugly solution
By forcing the provisioning to happen before anything gets mounted: the ideal solution.
Does any know if this is possible and if so how? I wasn't able to found anything regarding the 3rd solution :( if you have a better solution you're more than welcome to post here it might help me and others probably.
I have found this and this but is not helpful.
one potential solution would be to run apache as vagrant user.
In your /etc/httpd/conf you can replace the User and Group value as
User vagrant
Group vagrant
so you can continue sharing your folder with vagrant user and httpd will be run as vagrant user.
You can use numeric ids and then create an user
config.vm.synced_folder '${HOSTDIR}', '${EXPORTDIR}', type: "virtualbox", owner: '123', group: '456'
config.vm.provision :shell, inline: "useradd --system -g '456' -u '123' -d '${EXPORTDIR}' --shell /bin/false apache"
I have the following vagrant VM:
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8000, host: 8080
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8001, host: 8081
config.vm.synced_folder "../..", "/home/edgleweb"
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.memory = "4000"
vb.cpus = 2
end
config.vm.provision "shell", path: "./provisioner.sh", args: "edgleweb" #, run: "always"
end
I am having some issues with my VM which I use for development. I would like to spin another exact copy of it after a box update. I don't want to copy and paste the folder as that is against DRY principle. Vagrant documentation calls for a multi-machine setup as follows:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "echo Hello"
config.vm.define "web" do |web|
web.vm.box = "apache"
end
config.vm.define "db" do |db|
db.vm.box = "mysql"
end
end
But I do want to keep my initial VM intact until I fully test the new one. I don't want to lose it. It is not apparent from the documentation how I keep it. How do I keep it?
You could use the vagrant snapshot command with either the save or push sub-commands to achieve this. See the documentation here.
I've been changing my /etc/hosts file to redirect live urls to my local vagrant box, which worked fine until recently.
I have something like this in my host file
example.be 10.11.10.12
I need to do this because I'm using a third party javascript SDK which is linked to the live domain.
I think this is the most important stuff in the config file:
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
# Every Vagrant development environment requires a box. You can search for
# boxes at https://atlas.hashicorp.com/search.
config.vm.box = "bento/debian-7.8"
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 3001
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.11.10.12"
config.ssh.forward_agent = true
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "nfs" # NFS because VirtualBox shared VM is too slow
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
# This all might be a bit excessive, but it'll run ;)
vb.memory = 2048
vb.cpus = 4
# The internet says these changes improve VM performance
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]
end
end
I've found similar questions, but none exactly answer my question. The thing is, it worked before and now it doesn't, that the hardest part for me...
FYI: I'm using OS X Yosemite 10.10.5
Okay, I feel stupid now, it seems I just needed to turn things around in my hosts file...
So I should have:
10.11.10.12 example.be
Strange it worked before, though.
Anyway, back to work. Move along, nothing to see here.
If I run curl google.com, I can't see the output, only a blank page. My Vagrantfile contains:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "trumobi"
#config.vm.box_url = "http://192.168.136.129/package.box"
config.ssh.default.username = "trumobi"
config.vm.network :public_network
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 8000, guest: 8000
end
If you are using Vagrant + VirtualBox + Ubuntu, you might want to add the following block to your VagrantFile:
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
end
If you are using ubuntu, and you think your firewall is on, here's how you turn off the firewall:
sudo ufw disable
This happens sometimes for me if I switch the host network connection, like disconnecting my laptop Ethernet cable and start using the wireless network.
I found that rebooting the Vagrant vm (vagrant halt, vagrant up) fixes things.
Disabling firewall helped me.
In my CentOS guest box I did:
# sudo service iptables save
# sudo service iptables stop
# sudo chkconfig iptables off
I tried all of the above without success (Vagrant+Virtualbox+Ubuntu 14.04). Virtualbox was showing 'Adapter 1 (NAT): cable disconnected'. Adding the following to my Vagrantfile fixed it:
config.vm.provider 'virtualbox' do |vb|
vb.customize ['modifyvm', :id, '--cableconnected1', 'on']
end
Found here: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/7648