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Various fixes for Vagrant (Lucid64) on Mac OS X Lion
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
# Preventing kernel panics - VirtualBox 4.1 and Mac OS X Lion 10.7.
#
# This happens on my Macbook Air Mid-2011 Core i7. Every few hours, with
# one or (particularly) more VMs running, you will get a kernel panic.
#
# Some reading:
# https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9359
# https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45387
# https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vagrant-up/o3qv-ZMwrFQ
#
# The fix - downgrade to VirtualBox 4.0.14:
#
# OSX: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.14/VirtualBox-4.0.14-74382-OSX.dmg
#
# You should modify your base box to run the same version of
# VirtualBox Guest Additions. Create a new vagrant project,
# vagrant up, and ssh in. Run the following:
#
# $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
# $ cd /opt
# $ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.14/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.0.14.iso
# $ sudo mount VBoxGuestAdditions_4.0.14.iso -o loop /mnt
# $ cd /mnt
# $ sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --nox11
# $ sudo rm /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.0.14.iso
#
# Now logout and package up the box so you can reimport
# it as your base box. (See Vagrant documentation for details on this.)
#
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
# This prevents disk corruption (deleted inodes) on Ext4
# filesystems under VirtualBox. In newer versions of VirtualBox,
# it may be on by default. If you are seeing 'read-only file system'
# errors, or 'input/output errors', or constant fsck errors on reboot,
# you need this.
#
# Some reading:
#
# http://joeshaw.org/2011/09/30/terrible-vagrant-virtualbox-performance-on-mac-os-x/
# https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9749
# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/528981 (Comment #51)
#
config.vm.customize([
'storagectl',
:id,
'--name',
'SATA Controller',
'--hostiocache',
'on'
])
# As of VirtualBox 4.1, you have to explicitly indicate that you will
# allow symlinks to be created in your shared folders. This is for
# security reasons. (I'm not using 4.1 yet, but I expect to.)
#
# Note that this config is PER-FOLDER, so if you create other shared
# folders, replace 'v-root' in this statement with the shared folder id.
#
config.vm.customize([
'setextradata',
:id,
'VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root',
'1'
])
# This is how you set memory (MB).
#
config.vm.customize([
'modifyvm',
:id,
'--memory',
512
])
end
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cyberj commented Jan 22, 2013

Same here thanks !

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bes89 commented May 17, 2013

thanks a lot, but i get this error:
VBoxManage: error: Unknown option: --hostiocache
which version of virtualbox are you using?

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