SMB shared folders doesn't appear to work

[StevenArmstrong]

Hi

I am trying to use vagrant 1.6.2 and test the shared folder functionality with vagrant-vsphere and it appears to always try and default to rsync. Am I doing something horribly wrong or is this just not supported yet with the vsphere provider? I am using a windows host and guest, My vagrantfile is as follows:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

config.vm.define :TestBox do |config| config.windows.halt_timeout = 15 config.winrm.username = "Administrator" config.winrm.password = "**" config.vm.box = "TestBox" config.vm.communicator = "winrm" config.berkshelf.enabled = true

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 5985, host: 5985, id: "winrm", auto_correct:true

config.vm.box_url = "./TestBox.box" config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "smb"

config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef| chef.log_level = :info chef.custom_config_path = "Vagrantfile.chef" chef.add_recipe "windows::TestRunBook"

end

config.vm.provider :vsphere do |vsphere| vsphere.host = '10.20.1.67' vsphere.compute_resource_name = '10.20.1.97' vsphere.resource_pool_name = 'Provisioning' vsphere.template_name = 'DevOps_Production_Templates/DevOps_Windows2008R2' vsphere.name = 'TestBox' vsphere.user = 'administrator' vsphere.password = '****' vsphere.insecure = 'false' vsphere.data_store_name = 'QA-DS100'

end

end

end

Output is:

C:\vagrant-vsphere>vagrant provision TestBox Updating Vagrant's berkshelf: 'C:/Users/DevOps_Admin/.berkshelf/TestBox/vagrant/ berkshelf-20140515-456-pdunpi-TestBox' Resolving cookbook dependencies... Using chef_handler (1.1.6) Using windows (1.31.0) Vendoring chef_handler (1.1.6) to C:/Users/DevOps_Admin/.berkshelf/TestBox/vagra nt/berkshelf-20140515-456-pdunpi-TestBox/chef_handler Vendoring windows (1.31.0) to C:/Users/DevOps_Admin/.berkshelf/TestBox/vagrant/b erkshelf-20140515-456-pdunpi-TestBox/windows ==> TestBox: Warning! Folder sync disabled because the rsync binary is ==> TestBox: missing. Make sure rsync is installed and the binary can ==> TestBox: be found in PATH. ==> TestBox: Running provisioner: chef_solo... Generating chef JSON and uploading... ==> TestBox: Running chef-solo... ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:16-07:00] INFO: * Chef 11.12.4 * ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:16-07:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 1524 ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[ windows::TestRunBook]"] from CLI options ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[windows::Test RunBook]] ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Run List expands to [windows::Tes tRunBook] ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for Template-CI .T-BX.COM ==> TestBox: ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Running start handlers ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Start handlers complete. ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:46-07:00] INFO: WindowsPackage light-weight resou rce already initialized -- overriding! ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:48-07:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 2.886037 sec onds ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:48-07:00] INFO: Running report handlers ==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:48-07:00] INFO: Report handlers complete

[mkuzmin]

I believe this should be fixed as a part of https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere/pull/66 But I'm still solving issues in this pull request.

[StevenArmstrong]

Thanks for the information.

[mkuzmin]

PR https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere/issues/66 has been merged, but unfortunately NFS sync requires an additional piece of code, and it's not supported yet.

[mkuzmin]

I've figured this issue out. There is nothing to fix in vagrant-vsphere plugin. There are two parts: 1) RSync was selected because sync protocol should be explicitly configured in synced_folder_type property of Chef provisioner. 2) Even if you select smb type, it will not work until https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/pull/4209 has been fixed.