How to share (config.vm.synced_folder), directories between Windows 10 and CentOS7 Virtual Machine created using Vagrant and VirtualBox

I'm trying to create a VM CentOS7 using Vagrant (2.2.3) and Virtual Box (6.0.4), on Windows 10 using the following Vagrant file

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "bento/centos-7" config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.56.3" config.vm.synced_folder "D://SharedWithVM//CentOS7-Work", "/media/sf_CentOS7-Work", type: "virtualbox" config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb| vb.name = "Test" end config.vm.provision "shell", path: "./scripts/InstallGuestAdditions.sh"
end

and the InstallGuestAdditions.sh shell script is the follow ..

#!/bin/bash
curl -C - -O
sudo mkdir /media/VBoxGuestAdditions
sudo mount -o loop,ro VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.4.iso /media/VBoxGuestAdditions
sudo sh /media/VBoxGuestAdditions/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
rm VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.4.iso
sudo umount /media/VBoxGuestAdditions
sudo rmdir /media/VBoxGuestAdditions

All works fine and the CentOS7 VM is created.

If I check the machine properties about shared directories I can see this

So I'm quite surprised about this path \\?\D:\SharedWithVM\CentOS7-Work.

How should I change my Vagrantfile to obtain a right path?

I've tried to connect at my CentOS 7 VM using vagrant ssh command and all works. Also the command cd /media/sf_CentOS7-Work works fine but no file or directory can be listed or shared between the two systems.

Here you're a snapshot on my VM CentOS7

I've tried to create files or directories in Windows 10 and also in CentOS7 VM.

Any suggestion or example will be appreciated.

2 Answers

I was able to successfully do this in my Virtualbox image earlier; hopefully it will work for you too.

Directions: Inside of your virtual machine:

1. Create a directory (e.g. mkdir -p /mnt/share)
2. Mount the shared folder to the directory you just created, where "shared_folder" is the name of the shared folder you set up from Settings earlier (e.g. mount -t vboxsf shared_folder /mnt/share)

You should now be able to access files from your equivalent /mnt/share directory

This worked for me

config.vm.synced_folder "C:\Users\syed\Pvagrant2\data\testplay", "/vagrant", type: 'rsync'

vagant up --provison

==> default: Rsyncing folder: /cygdrive/c/Users/syed/Pvagrant2/data/testplay/ => /vagrant ==> default: Running provisioner: ansible_local... default: Running ansible-playbook...

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************