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Sometimes sync gets broken or even doesn't work. This script or procedural commands are intended to solve this issue
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sync-vagrant-vbox.md

Its assumed that:

  • vagrant up is done
  • vagrant provision too
  • shared folders/sync still not work

First and foremost:

  • get your Virtualbox version: vboxmanage --version | cut -d 'r' -f1
  • keep the returned version and for this example lets say: VBOXVERSION = 4.3.36

Connect to your machine:

  • vagrant ssh

Swith to super user ('su') or prefix the following commands by 'sudo'

Execute one by one and replace VBOXVERSION by the returned version before in our case 4.3.36)

mkdir -p /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions

curl -sSOL http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/ VBOXVERSION /VBoxGuestAdditions_ VBOXVERSION .iso

mount -t iso9660 -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions_ VBOXVERSION .iso /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions

/media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

DO NOT COPY/PASTE THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE

Just to be clear the result in our example would be:

mkdir -p /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions

curl -sSOL http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.36/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.36.iso

mount -t iso9660 -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.36.iso /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions

/media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

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