vagrant-instant-rsync-auto

An rsync watcher for Vagrant 1.5.1+ that's much faster than the native vagrant rsync-auto command; especially if you have a decent amount of logic in your Vagrantfile and/or plugins that makes the parsing and loading of it a bit slow.

Installation

To get started, you need to have Vagrant 1.5.1+ installed on your Linux, Mac, or Windows host machine. To install the plugin, use the following command.

vagrant plugin install vagrant-instant-rsync-auto

Usage

This plugin should behave exactly the same as vagrant rsync-auto, and in particular it uses the same configuration. So simply run

vagrant instant-rsync-auto

in lieu of your usual vagrant rsync-auto, and you should be good to go!

Hopefully this will make it into Vagrant proper, there's a pull request opened for that: hashicorp/vagrant#7332

Troubleshooting

This plugin requires rsync 3.1.0+ on both the host and the guest; you can see your rsync version with

rsync --version

(On Mac OS X, rsync can be upgraded with brew install rsync)