I'm curious if there's a reason why the SyncedFolders middleware runs so early in the VirtualBox boot process, and if I were to submit a pull request to change the order if it would cause problems (or if it would be accepted).
Some background: I'm working on a Vagrant plugin to help integrate SmartOS with Vagrant, particularly to help manage non-global zones (source code here: https://github.com/sax/vagrant-smartos-zones). I've made some progress, but syncing folders into local zones has been challenging. I realized yesterday that I can forgo the problem of syncing between the host and the local zone by syncing into the file system as seen by the global zone. For instance, if a local zone is created and it gets a uuid of <zone_uuid>, the global zone can access its file system at /zones/<zone_uuid>/root. The problem is that the middleware for configuring synced folders runs before the VM (and thus the global zone) is accessible, and thus before my plugin can create a local zone and get its uuid. I can get around this (and have in the latest commits of my plugin) by re-running the built-in middleware after the zones are created and I can manipulate the vm synced_folders configuration. It works for rsync, and I'm starting to play around with NFS. I don't know if there's a reason not to do this. I was also wondering if the order of the middleware could change to run after Vagrant::Action::Builtin::WaitForCommunicator, so that plugins like mine can hook into the configuration before it's parsed by Vagrant. I'm also more than welcoming of other ideas for solving this problem if something is more vagrant-y. I'm not personally attached to the code already written, I just want to make enough features work that people can start using SmartOS with Vagrant. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
