SMB shared folders doesn't appear to work

[StevenArmstrong]

Hi

I am trying to use vagrant 1.6.2 and test the shared folder functionality with vagrant-vsphere and it appears to always try and default to rsync. Am I doing something horribly wrong or is this just not supported yet with the vsphere provider?
I am using a windows host and guest,
My vagrantfile is as follows:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

config.vm.define :TestBox do |config|
config.windows.halt_timeout = 15
config.winrm.username = "Administrator"
config.winrm.password = "******"
config.vm.box = "TestBox"
config.vm.communicator = "winrm"
config.berkshelf.enabled = true

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 5985, host: 5985, id: "winrm", auto_correct:true

config.vm.box_url = "./TestBox.box"
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "smb"

config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef|
chef.log_level = :info
chef.custom_config_path = "Vagrantfile.chef"
chef.add_recipe "windows::TestRunBook"

end

config.vm.provider :vsphere do |vsphere|
vsphere.host = '10.20.1.67'
vsphere.compute_resource_name = '10.20.1.97'
vsphere.resource_pool_name = 'Provisioning'
vsphere.template_name = 'DevOps_Production_Templates/DevOps_Windows2008R2'
vsphere.name = 'TestBox'
vsphere.user = 'administrator'
vsphere.password = '************'
vsphere.insecure = 'false'
vsphere.data_store_name = 'QA-DS100'

end

end

end

Output is:

C:\vagrant-vsphere>vagrant provision TestBox
Updating Vagrant's berkshelf: 'C:/Users/DevOps_Admin/.berkshelf/TestBox/vagrant/
berkshelf-20140515-456-pdunpi-TestBox'
Resolving cookbook dependencies...
Using chef_handler (1.1.6)
Using windows (1.31.0)
Vendoring chef_handler (1.1.6) to C:/Users/DevOps_Admin/.berkshelf/TestBox/vagra
nt/berkshelf-20140515-456-pdunpi-TestBox/chef_handler
Vendoring windows (1.31.0) to C:/Users/DevOps_Admin/.berkshelf/TestBox/vagrant/b
erkshelf-20140515-456-pdunpi-TestBox/windows
==> TestBox: Warning! Folder sync disabled because the rsync binary is
==> TestBox: missing. Make sure rsync is installed and the binary can
==> TestBox: be found in PATH.
==> TestBox: Running provisioner: chef_solo...
Generating chef JSON and uploading...
==> TestBox: Running chef-solo...
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:16-07:00] INFO: *** Chef 11.12.4 ***
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:16-07:00] INFO: Chef-client pid: 1524
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[
windows::TestRunBook]"] from CLI options
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[windows::Test
RunBook]]
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Run List expands to [windows::Tes
tRunBook]
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for Template-CI
.T-BX.COM
==> TestBox:
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Running start handlers
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:45-07:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:46-07:00] INFO: WindowsPackage light-weight resou
rce already initialized -- overriding!
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:48-07:00] INFO: Chef Run complete in 2.886037 sec
onds
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:48-07:00] INFO: Running report handlers
==> TestBox: [2014-05-21T09:33:48-07:00] INFO: Report handlers complete

[mkuzmin]

I believe this should be fixed as a part of #66
But I'm still solving issues in this pull request.

[StevenArmstrong]

Thanks for the information.

[mkuzmin]

PR #66 has been merged, but unfortunately NFS sync requires an additional piece of code, and it's not supported yet.

[mkuzmin]

I've figured this issue out. There is nothing to fix in vagrant-vsphere plugin. There are two parts:

1. RSync was selected because sync protocol should be explicitly configured in synced_folder_type property of Chef provisioner.
2. Even if you select smb type, it will not work until adding smb sync folder implementation for windows guests addressing #3699 hashicorp/vagrant#4209 has been fixed.