Configuration Using Rsync Instead of NFS

NFS is stable and works well for mounting your virtual Kalastack drive on your host machine, but some people may experience problems with it. If you...

• have consistent stability issues (NFS refuses to work, particularly if you're running OS 10.9+)
• experience degraded performance in your virtual environment

...you may want to try using Rsync instead of NFS.

To do so, follow these instructions:

1. Edit the Kalastack Vagrantfile (for Kalabox users, this should be at $HOME/.kalabox/kalastack/Vagrantfile) to change the line...

config.vm.synced_folder Dir.home + conf["synced_www_folder"]["host_path"], conf["synced_www_folder"]["guest_path"], :create => conf["synced_www_folder"]["create"], :nfs => conf["synced_www_folder"]["nfs"], :nfs_version => conf["synced_www_folder"]["nfs_version"]

to

config.vm.synced_folder Dir.home + conf["synced_www_folder"]["host_path"] + "/", conf["synced_www_folder"]["guest_path"], :create => conf["synced_www_folder"]["create"], type: "rsync", rsync__args: ["-a"]

2. Make sure your virtual environment is halted, then run "vagrant up" (or simply restart Kalabox).

3. In the kalastack directory, run "vagrant rsync-auto". This will sync any changes you make on your host machine over to your virtual.

Warnings

• It may take a couple seconds for changes made on your host machine to be transferred to your virtual Kalastack environment.
• Changes made on the virtual machine will not be synced back to the host machine.
• Occasionally the "vagrant rsync-auto" command will fail and need to be restarted; leave it running in the terminal window, and if you're having problems, try stopping it (ctrl+c) and re-running the command.