centos/7 box does not sync correctly between host and VM

[corylown]

I think I can fix this by using a different centos 7 box.

geerlingguy/centos7 is suggested in this thread:

CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build#27

[adjam]

@corylown did you install the vagrant-vbguest vagrant plugin? I'm not otherwise opposed to using a different box.

[corylown]

@adjam I did try installing that. But I'll give it another try before proposing moving to a different box.

[adjam]

According to CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build@ab1d40d it seems that adding bzip2 to the image is what makes the difference.

[corylown]

@adjam So, I think part of my confusion was that both /vagrant and ~/synced appear to show the same shared directory on the VM, but only ~/synced actually syncs content between the VM and the host. Closing the issue.

[adjam]

It might make sense to resurrect this issue or create a new one to make the mount point more sensible, in that case. Vagrant tends to mount the directory containing the Vagrantfile as the home directory, but during development I wanted the home directory to be mostly empty, so Spofford can create directories there and they wouldn't have to go into .gitignore. In mounting . under ~/synced, though, it gets confusing. I'm open to suggestions.

[corylown]

My understanding is that the standard mount point for the shared directory in the VM is /vagrant

[adjam]

Which is of course correct. Never mind =)

[corylown]

@adjam @queryluke I propose then that we remove the ~/synced directory (unless there is a reason it's needed that I don't know about) and just use the standard synced directory mount point of /vagrant. If that's OK with everyone I will update the Vagrantfile and references to the ~/synced dir in the setup and readme.

[queryluke]

I have no objections