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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by martinml on Monday July 22, 2013 @06:37PM (#6086925)
Anybody knows if there is an alternative to NFS, VBox's shared folders and Samba? The first doesn't exist in Windows, and the other two are slow and buggy.
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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by casey_lang on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:13PM (#6087364)
In my experience, OSX's implementation of NFS is buggy as well. It's not uncommon for my NFS server to simply give up and stop responding to requests from the vm. Trying out Fusion's share has been on my todo list for a while. I'm a little sad to hear its performance is poor. I've also found that processes like Guard which watch files for changes aren't properly notified. Even with these issues, moving all my development to VMs created by Vagrant has been incredibly useful.
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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by cstejerean on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:18PM (#6087381)
The performance of Fusion looked pretty good in that comparison. What do you mean its performance is poor?
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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by WestCoastJustin on Monday July 22, 2013 @06:54PM (#6087007)
Doesn't look like it. The Vagrant docs only list the default /vagrant mount and NFS [1].

[1] http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/index.html

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