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.
Best Answer
After some further debugging and the lack of response to a similar query on the google/vagrant forum:
vagrant up
orvagrant reload
vagrant reload
,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 withVagrantfile
only.See also Alvaro's response: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vagrant-up/oBU0kqPLzYk