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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

by Chad O Thompson
February 2015
Beginner
250 pages
5h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sharing folders with rsync

Sharing files and folders with Vagrant machines is a typical use of Vagrant in a development environment. Files on a host machine can be shared with a running Vagrant machine, giving developers the advantage of being able to execute code in a production-like environment while having the ability to use desktop productivity tools (IDEs and text editors) to modify code. There are some cases where sharing folders between a host and a guest might not be possible, or might not perform well for the task at hand.

Two possible examples are:

  • Processes that generate significant disk activity (I/O) on shared folders: Hypervisor folder sharing (particularly VirtualBox) can cause Vagrant processes to become I/O bound. Using NFS can ...
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