Add documentation on potentially-less-painful Windows NFS mounts

[geerlingguy]

http://www.hollyit.net/blog/windowsvagrantwinnfsd-without-file-update-problems

It describes a relatively simple configuration that might work well in a Windows 8/10 environment for NFS instead of native or SMB shares (both of which are sad, sad sad):

1. Uninstall the vagrant-winnfsd plugin.
2. Create a folder on your system for your new WinNFSD service files.
3. Grab winnfsd.exe and put it in that folder (download from here)
4. Grab the nfsservice.bat file and put it in that folder (get it here)
5. Create a text file in that folder. For this example, we'll name it exports.txt.
6. Copy the share folders from your vagrant files and place in that text file, one share per line.

Using WinNFSd directly instead of the vagrant-winnfsd plugin.

[dpagini]

Just for some feedback, I tried the above steps out on Windows 7. I see your issue is created to reference Windows 8/10, but I didn't notice any specs in the article, so I thought I would try it.

Anyways, I'm unsure of what's supposed to be in my C:\winnfs\exports.txt file (format?), but before I get there, I'm getting an error when trying to run the $ nfsstart.bat command. (Note: linked .bat file is named nfsservice.bat, but I renamed to nfsstart.bat)

[geerlingguy]

@dpagini - It looks like that might just be a case of that file not being in your current $PATH; also, you might want to try running that command within PowerShell instead of in Git Shell/Git Bash.

[T2L]

As far as I understand, Vagrant will disable NFS on Windows and replace it (silently) with VirtualBox folder sync.

One thing that vagrant-winnfsd plugin does is switching NFS on Windows back on. So, without plugin it does not work.

I've spent some time last week trying to figure out what to do with that. Seems like vagrant plugin needs fixes as well as WinNFSD daemon.

[ibuildit]

What do you think about simply commenting out the type and adding "type: 'nfs'" ?

Synced folders.

vconfig['vagrant_synced_folders'].each do |synced_folder|
options = {
#type: synced_folder.fetch('type', vconfig['vagrant_synced_folder_default_type']),
type: 'nfs',
rsync__exclude: synced_folder['excluded_paths'],
rsync__args: ['--verbose', '--archive', '--delete', '-z', '--copy-links', '--chmod=ugo=rwX'],
id: synced_folder['id'],
create: synced_folder.fetch('create', false),
mount_options: synced_folder.fetch('mount_options', []),
nfs_udp: synced_folder.fetch('nfs_udp', false)
}
synced_folder.fetch('options_override', {}).each do |key, value|
options[key.to_sym] = value
end
config.vm.synced_folder synced_folder.fetch('local_path'), synced_folder.fetch('destination'), options

end