There are few subfolders in my project folder that wouldn't need to be synced to the guest machine. (In particular the .git folder, which contains >800 files.) Is there a way to unsync subfolders of a synced folder in Vagrant? Or how should I prevent unneeded folders from being synced?
Disabling sync this way doesn't seem to work, when /vagrant/ is synced by default:
config.vm.synced_folder "www/kisa/.git/", "/vagrant/www/kisa/.git/", disabled: true
Normally (with vboxsf, vmhgfs, NFS, ...) the syncing is done by mounting the specified directory from the host to the guest. For performance reasons there should be no need to prevent some content from "syncing", as the data is not transferred unless you access it from the guest. If you write the data on the guest but don't want to sync it back to the host, easiest is to write it somewhere else. =)
The upcoming Vagrant 1.5 will include rsync synced folders which will support rsync__exclude option. Some cloud provider plugins (aws, digital_ocean, ..) already use rsync, but support for excluding depends on the provider. In some cases you just have to sync only the wanted folders separately. You can disable the default sync with
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
I can't pretend to understand this, but the method shown at this. seems to work for me for a Linux (Ubuntu) guest on a windows 7 host.
I wanted to use it for exactly what he describes - to exclude a node_modules directory from being shared.
In case the link disappears the gist is:
$ mkdir ~/vagrant_node_modules
$ sudo mount --bind ~/vagrant_node_modules /vagrant/node_modules
so that /vagrant is shared but /vagrant/node_modules is not.
Someone more knowledgeable than me might know if there are problems with this.
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I have a guest box that has data I want to sync to the host so that I am able to edit it using an editor on the host. I want any saved changes made on the host to sync back to the guest. I've tried using normal shared folders config.vm.synced_folder "workspace/", "/my/folder/to/sync/" but this just deletes the contents of the guest folder!
I've looked at using rsync but I'm unsure if this supports editing and syncing both ways
Rsync is type performs one-way synchronization fromm host to guest. When you boot the VM, Vagrant copies the contents of the synchronized folder from host to guest. Vagrant does not monitor the folder on the host for any changes. To change this behavior, use the rsync_auto parameter set to true.
I haven't used Vagrant on Linux for a while. When I started using the new version (Vagrant 1.8), I was faced with a problem: files created inside the guest VM didn't appear on the host machine's synced folder.
How do I force Vagrant to sync files from the guest OS to the host OS?
According to documentation, when type option config.vm.synced_folder parameter in Vagrantfile is not specified, Vagrant tries to choose best available option:
type (string) - The type of synced folder. If this is not specified, Vagrant will automatically choose the best synced folder option for your environment. Otherwise, you can specify a specific type such as "nfs".
Starting with version 1.5 Vagrant introduced new "rsync synced folders" feature.
So in my case type rsync was automatically chosen, which is one-way sync: from host to guest.
To make folders sync in two-way I added explicit definition in my Vagrantfile:
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "virtualbox"
Of course, this will work only for VirtualBox.
Two way sync is useful for workflows, where apllication on guest machine creating files, for example, database migration files in modern web frameworks.
Note: virtualbox synced folders have known performance issues when your project has large amount of files.
Thanks for this it was exactly what I have looking for the past several days !!!!! I had this problem with Laravel 5, homestead and vagrant. Many answers out there but none that worked for me. I also had rsync in my folders section of my yaml file that I also had to remove. After these two changes file sharing was finally sync for me between the host and client.
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/scripts/homestead.rb')
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "virtualbox"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
Here is where I made the change to my Vagranfile.
I'm working on getting a Vagrant setup running for the first time on a Windows 8.1 machine. I've been pouring over all the documentation to understand how it all works. I used puphpet to help me configure a Ubuntu 14 LAMP development box to use.
My confusion is around how the synced folders are setup. It seems that the synced folders on install, always create a new 'default' and 'html' folder in whatever local directory I specify in my puphpet setup. I then have to put any code files I want to run in the default folder.
For example: host folder: ./www ends up having /www/default and www//html in it after Vagrant up. Why is this occurring? I left the remote folder to the default /var/www.
My ideal setup was to have a Vagrant box folder setup on my machine, and then have my code project reside in the same directory as the Vagrant box files. However, it seems that I can only put the code project in the 'default' directory that Vagrant creates.
I can't find any mention of this in the documentation. Is this normal behaviour for this to be happening? If not, how can I get around this so that I can keep the code in whatever directory that I want?
Here's the relevant code from the puphpet config file:
synced_folder:
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source: ./www
target: /var/www
sync_type: default
rsync:
args: '-z'
exclude: .vagrant/
auto: 'false'
Author of puphpet here.
Nginx creates a folder for its default vhost (same with Apache). That's what those two folders are. It also appears there's a small bug in puphpet that will create both folders, even though one is the right one. I'll see about fixing it, but it shouldn't affect your VM in the slightest.
/var/www is what you've defined as your target, so anything that appears in your master's ./www will also appear in your VM's /var/www and vice-versa.
I have created a puppet/vagrant/VirtualBox generated installation of Ubuntu running on a Windows host; see https://bitbucket.org/dmenne/rstudio-shiny-server-on-ubuntu for details. This allows users to run RStudio and Shiny server on Windows. In Vagrantfile, I have
config.vm.synced_folder "shiny-server", "/srv/shiny-server", create:true
to create a shared folder. When I start the VM with vagrant up or vagrant reload, everything works ok.
One customer does not want to install vagrant etc, and asks for a standalone VM to be started/stopped with the VirtualBox Manager on Windows. However, after I shutdown a vagrant-booted VM Box, my synced folders do not connect/mount again on VM restart, even if they turn up correctly in the shared folders dialog of the VirtualBox Manager.
How can I shrink-wrap a Vagrant-generated VM so it can be started/stopped without Vagrant?
EDIT March 2015:
I still could not resolve this. When I force automount, on restore media/sf_<folder> is synced, not the required folder. How can I force VirtualBox to use sync-template from Vagrantfile after a restart?
And how do I force automount in vagrant without doing it manually.
After some further debugging and the lack of response to a similar query on the google/vagrant forum:
When you use synced folders in puppet, you must restart VirtualBox with vagrant up or vagrant reload
If you use the VirtualBox GUI to stop/restart, automount restores the synced folders incorrectly, i.e. to /media/sf_; this cannot be corrected without using a vagrant reload,
The only alternative without vagrant is to save the state in VirtualBox (CTRL-V). After a restart, the synced folders are restored correctly. However, it is probably impossible to force end-users to always manually save the state.
To use persistent synced folders, you must use upstart or similar methods; it cannot be done with Vagrantfile only.
See also Alvaro's response:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vagrant-up/oBU0kqPLzYk
There are two parts to getting this to work. First, we need to get the synced folders automatically mounting from the host, which is the case of a Linux guest is a bit of a misnomer, because it's more "being automatically made available for mounting", or "automatically shared". For each shared folder (gemainsame ordner) you must turn on auto mount (automatische einbinden)
To do this, click on the edit shared folder icon for each share
And check auto mount (automatische einbinden)
At the end you should see "Ja" under "automatische Einbinden" for all the shares to should auto-sync
If the guest system is Ubuntu (or any Linux system), then having done this, all the synced folders should now be visible within to the guest, but the guest won't automatically mount them. You will need to put an entry into your /etc/fstab for each folder you want automatically mounted in the guest.
Since you are using VirtualBox, Vagrant will presumably choose to implement the synced folders using VirutalBox's shared folder provisioning method. To the guest system in Linux, depending on your version of Guest Additions, this looks like either an smb/cifs share with the name (by default) of //vboxsrv/, or a file system of type "vboxsf".
The vboxsf is from more recent version of guest additions (4.1.18 onwards at least), and automount option 'just works'. On booting a Linux guest VM with an automount set share called 'bob', the system should mount Bob automatically (without an fstab entry) at /media/sf_Bob. The full output of the relevant line from mount is
none on media/sf_Bob type vboxsf (rw,nodev,relatime)
If this isn't working, check that you can see a samba network share from within your guest system, using smbclient or smbtree. It should look like //vboxsrv/Bob. In your fstab then, you would add a line like this
#share name #mount point in guest #fstype #options #dump/pass
//vboxsrv/Bob /mnt/Bob cifs auto,rw 0 0
You may wish to read the manual page for mount.cifs to tune the options for each mount, especially with regards to file ownership and permissions (relevant options to investigate are forceuid, uid, forcegid, gid, file_mode, and dir_mode)
While going through Vagrant tutorials, I have seen two options for sharing folders between host and guest machines - shared folders and synced folders. What are the difference between them?
Or, is synced folder the new name for shared folder, in Vagrant 2?
Shared Folders is more VirtualBox specific (vboxsf) and have known performance issues as number of files grows.
Vagrant v2 (For vagrant 1.1.x and 1.2.x) docs use a more generic name Synced Folder, which includes the default vboxsf and NFS.
In addition to vboxsf and NFS, sshfs is also worth looking into if your host is running Linux.
As you guessed, synced folder is the new, more generic name for a feature that is not only VirtualBox specific anymore as of Vagrant 1.1.