Homestead 2.0, Vagrant and VirtualBox running a lot slower than MAMP - vagrant

Question

I've just setup Homestead 2.0 vagrant server for Laravel 5 running on VirtualBox on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and it's running a lot slower than MAMP.
I really want to use Homestead, but the 1-3 second delay in loading pages is becoming really annoying, yet every load request is instant on MAMP.
Am I missing something on my setup?
Homestead.yaml:
---
ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 2
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
- map: /Users/jackbarham/Code
to: /home/vagrant/Code
sites:
- map: tasks.mac
to: /home/vagrant/Code/tasks/public
databases:
- homestead
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
hosts:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
192.168.10.10 tasks.mac
127.0.0.1 tasks-mamp.mac # MAMP PRO - Do NOT remove this entry!

Answer 1

I asked the same question on reddit/r/laravel and got the answer:
Locate the homestead.rb file in: /Users/username/.composer/vendor/laravel/homestead/scripts
Shut down the VM (homestead halt)
Open homestead.rb file, on line 49, under "# Register All Of The Configured Shared Folders" change:
from:
settings["folders"].each do |folder|
config.vm.synced_folder folder["map"], folder["to"], type: folder["type"] ||= nil
end
to:
settings["folders"].each do |folder|
config.vm.synced_folder folder["map"], folder["to"], type: folder["type"] ||= nil, :nfs => true
end
config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"
Power up (homestead up) and this should speed things up
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/2vvama/homestead_20_vagrant_and_virtualbox_running_a_lot

Answer 2

In my case using Windows as HOST is the same, it is because VirtualBox uses vboxsf as a file system to mount files from host to guest, I don't know why but it is too slow.
On the GUEST (Ubuntu 16.04) I mounted the working folder as a Network Folder using CIFS and runs a lot more faster.
On the guest side I use this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
On the Host side (mac) I think you should follow this instructions: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18707?locale=en_US