Implement a more elegant workaround for Guest Updater being weird

The .conf option was causing ~20% CPU utilization while idle. Lame.
clwdev · Dec 23, 2015 · a55696b · a55696b
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diff --git a/puppet/precip/manifests/init.pp b/puppet/precip/manifests/init.pp
@@ -83,10 +83,12 @@
   include 'precip::httpd'
   include 'precip::database'
 
-  file { "/etc/init/vboxadd.conf":
-    content => template("precip/vboxadd.conf.erb"),
-    ensure  => 'file',
-    mode    => '0644',
+  # More elegant workaround for vbguest's issue #95
+  # See: https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest/issues/95#issuecomment-163777475
+  file { '/sbin/vboxadd':
+    ensure => "link",
+    force => "true",
+    target => "/sbin/rcvboxadd",
   }
 
   file { "/etc/init/restart_services_once_mounted.conf":

diff --git a/puppet/precip/templates/vboxadd.conf.erb b/puppet/precip/templates/vboxadd.conf.erb