Vagrant with VirtualBox on Windows10: “Rsync” could not be found on your PATH

Question

I\'ve used Vagrant for a while on a windows 7 system. Now I\'ve a new PC with windows 10. I installed Oracle Virtual Box and Vagrant and I try to start a machine with the comman

Answer 1

Using Vagrant/VirtualBox (5.06) on Windows7 with centos/7 box from Atlas: could not find rsync on the path. So, I installed via cygwin as suggested (had other stuff to install as well, including openssh). No joy. Tried changing the shared folder config to "virtualbox" rather than "rsync". No joy. Oh, forgot to check if the VirtualBox guest additions were in the box: they were not. Rsync worked bettter, but still chocked at the end (could not chdir to the source directory of the shared folder). However, the "type: virtualbox" config did work!

So the datapoint is: centos/7 with guest additions added and shared folder type set to "virtualbox" (overriding the box setting) on windows 7 works.

Worked out of the box (no changes, no guest additions) on MacOS.