NFS utils not pre-installed on CentOS 6.4 VBox

[drock]

The centos-64-x64-vbox4210.box base box does not by default have the nfs-utils and nfs-utils-lib packages installed.

These packages are necessary for this box to work with a VagrantFile configured to share folders using NFS instead of VBoxGuestAdditions

[shanethehat]

Would it be preferable to have nfs in available in the existing images or some duplicates with nfs support?

[drock]

I, personally, would prefer that they were just included in the existing images. Vagrant's documentation and configuration positions using NFS for file sharing as a pretty much turn-key option, just set a flag to true. Would be nice for that to be the case with the boxes as well.

Additionally, at least with php stacks, I have found that nfs performs many times better than serving the php files from a VBox additions shared folder. Thus, I almost exclusively use nfs for sharing the folders.

[shanethehat]

I agree with all of that, but adding nfs to all of these boxes is going to be a bit of an investment of time. It would be nice to get an opinion from @kbarber before embarking on that journey.

[mitom]

Is there any update on this?

[salimane]

+1

[salimane]

@kbarber what do you think this ?