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Bidirectional Vagrant Rsync

I have configured Vagrant to use Rsync shared folders instead of the (incredibly SLOW) vboxsf filesystem provided by VirtualBox by default:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync",
        rsync__args: ["--verbose", "--archive", "-z"]
end

Obviously, there's more configuration, but I found these instructions here and they generally work in synchronizing from the host to the guest.

However, I need the guest to be able to sync back to the host, as some of my build tools are only installed on the guest. How can I sync bidirectionally in the shared folder?

Solution

  • Unfortunately no, quote from documentation:

    The rsync synced folder does a one-time one-way sync from the machine running to the machine being started by Vagrant.

    so better for you to use NFS (or SMB if using a Windows host)

    In some cases the default shared folder implementations (such as VirtualBox shared folders) have high performance penalties. If you're seeing less than ideal performance with synced folders,