Vagrant guest's /var/www freezes when doing config.vm.synced

Question

I reviewed all synced_folder configuration @ Vagrant's website...

Host OS: Windows 7 Guest OS: Ubuntu

this is my Vagrantfile config:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|  
    config.vm.box = "base"
    config.vm.hostname = "daison.vagrant.me"
    config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 8080
    config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.10"
    config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
    #config.vm.synced_folder "C:\\Users\\daison\\vagrant\\src\\www", "/var/www"
end

I also do C:\Users\daison\vagrant\> vagrant reload

I can access my the Ubuntu's apache, by running 127.0.0.1:8080 or 192.168.33.10 or daison.vagrant.me:8080 -- IN MY HOST

so by removing the commented synced_folder and reloading again the vagrant. The results of all the IP ADDRESSES AND MY VIRTUALHOST ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE -- INT MY HOST

I tried accessing vagrant ssh

vagrant@daison: cd /var/www
vagrant@daison: /var/www$ ls

and nothing showing up...

I also tried to create a folder just to see if the synced_folder really works even if it freezes the guest folder

vagrant@daison: /var/www$ mkdir thisFolderWillAlsoShareToHost

Then a folder in my C:\Users\daison\vagrant\src\www created IN MY HOST.

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I also tried to change the synced_folders to "/vagrant/sample" just to test if /vagrant/sample will be freeze the same with /var/www, after reloading the vagrant.

The result is; I can access the web-server, ofcourse it is not part in /var/www, but using ls inside /vagrant/sample freezes also.

Maybe someone could help? Thank you!

Answer 1

Most probably the VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest are buggy or too different version with the VirtualBox version in your host. Try upgrading them. The vagrant-vbguest plugin can do it automatically.

As downloading and installing the Guest Additions takes time, you might want to package the updated box, or build your box yourself using e.g. packer.