[Catalyst] Vagrant / Developing with VM / NFS performance

[Francisco Obispo]

What I usually do (on MacOS) is use SSHFS, with ExpanDrive ($25),

It works very nicely, the restarter doesn't complain, and it works with multiple OSes.

Francisco


On May 14, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Drew Taylor wrote:

> Hi Toby,
> 
> I'm not (yet) using a VM with my new job, but at my last position I
> was running Parallels which hosted a VM running FreeBSD. In order to
> be able to use my OS X text editor of choice, I hosted the files on
> the OS X side and exported via NFS to the FreeBSD VM. The performance
> was good enough and it solved my problem. The catalyst restarter
> didn't seem to have any problems with this approach, though it
> sometimes took a couple seconds to see file changes.
> 
> I suspect when I do begin using a local VM I'll take the same
> approach, though this time it will be using MacVIM instead of
> TextMate. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Drew
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Tobias Kremer <tobias.kremer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm playing around with Vagrant[1] to manage my development VMs and
>> I'm running into some NFS-troubles and just wanted to hear if and how
>> you guys are developing with a guest OS.
>> 
>> The thing is that Vagrant by default configures the VM to export a
>> shared directory (where my Catalyst app lives) from the host OS (OS X
>> in my case) to the guest VM (Debian). I'm using the alternative NFS
>> mount option because VirtualBox's shared folder support is known to be
>> super slow. Problem is, Catalyst::Restarter doesn't pick up changes to
>> my files. I suppose this is due to NFS doing attribute caching. If I
>> turn this off (with "noac" in the NFS mount options), the Catalyst
>> server picks up the changes more quickly but it also takes a full
>> minute to start (as opposed to 3-4 seconds when the files are local).
>> 
>> Having the app locally on my host and exporting it into the VM feels
>> more natural to me, but the performance issues really make this a
>> deal-breaker. Does anyone have any advice on how to improve things?
>> How do you share your files between your VM and your host system?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!
>> --Toby
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://vagrantup.com/
>> 
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