A Vagrant plugin to mount a folder from the box to the host using sshfs.
Common solutions for sharing folders with Vagrant include synced folder, which is pretty slow when dealing with many files, and NFS. NFS didn't work for me because of encrypted disk restrictions. An alternative was to mount a folder in the host machine pointing to a folder in the box with sshfs.
vagrant plugin install vagrant-sshfs
In the Vagrantfile, add a configuration like this:
config.sshfs.paths = { "src" => "mountpoint" }
src is the source absolute path to the folder in the box, mountpoint is the folder in the host machine. mountpoint can be an absolute path, or relative to the Vagrantfile.
By default it will use the Vagrant ssh username. You can change that with the following:
config.sshfs.username = "theusername"
The plugin is enabled by default, so it will run everytime the machine starts. In case that is not desired, you can disabled that with the following configuration:
config.sshfs.enabled = false
The plugin creates missing folder by default, if you want to be prompted, you can disable it with the following configuration:
config.sshfs.prompt_сreate_folders = false
The plugin is creating folders using sudo by default, In case that is not desired, you can disable that with the following configuration:
config.sshfs.sudo = false
To manually run it, you can use the sshfs command. Please check vagrant -h.
In case you are getting "Connection reset by peer" errors, it might be the case that you already have a host configuration under your ~/.ssh/know_hosts for the given ip, and you are using the same ip with a different machine. If that is the case, you can set a StrictHostKeyChecking no under that ip to skip the check:
Host 127.0.0.1
StrictHostKeyChecking no
You need to have sshfs installed on guest machine and ssh server on host.
To mount a host folder on guest machine add a configuration like this:
config.sshfs.mount_on_guest = true
config.sshfs.paths = { "src" => "mountpoint" }
config.sshfs.host_addr = '10.0.2.2'
src is the source absolute path to the folder in the host machine, mountpoint is the folder in the guest. src can be an absolute path, or relative to the Vagrantfile.
host_addr is the host machine IP accessible from guest.
If you have issues or ideas, please contribute! You can create an issue throught Github, or send a Pull Request.
To try this out, you can run bundle exec vagrant up from the source code checkout.