Vagrant::Persistent-Storage

A Vagrant plugin that creates a persistent storage and attaches it to guest machine.

Requires Virtualbox 5

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-persistent-storage

After installing you can set the location and size of the persistent storage.

The following options will create a persistent storage with 5000 MB, named mysql, mounted on /var/lib/mysql, in a volume group called 'vagrant'

config.persistent_storage.enabled = true
config.persistent_storage.location = "~/development/sourcehdd.vdi"
config.persistent_storage.size = 5000
config.persistent_storage.mountname = 'mysql'
config.persistent_storage.filesystem = 'ext4'
config.persistent_storage.mountpoint = '/var/lib/mysql'
config.persistent_storage.volgroupname = 'myvolgroup'

With config.persistent_storage.mountoptions you can change the mount options (default: defaults).
A example which sets prjquota option with xfs.

config.persistent_storage.mountname    = 'xfs'
config.persistent_storage.filesystem   = 'xfs'
config.persistent_storage.mountpoint   = '/mnt/xfs'
config.persistent_storage.mountoptions = ['defaults', 'prjquota']

Device defaults to /dev/sdb. For boxes with multiple disks, make sure you increment the drive:

config.persistent_storage.diskdevice = '/dev/sdc'

Every vagrant up will attach this file as hard disk to the guest machine. An vagrant destroy will detach the storage to avoid deletion of the storage by vagrant. A vagrant destroy generally destroys all attached drives. See VBoxMange unregistervm --delete option.

The disk is initialized and added to it's own volume group as specfied in the config; this defaults to 'vagrant'. An ext4 filesystem is created and the disk mounted appropriately, with entries added to fstab ... subsequent runs will mount this disk with the options specified

Windows Guests must use the WinRM communicator by setting vm.communicator = 'winrm'. An additional option is provided to allow you to set the drive letter using:

config.persistent_storage.drive_letter = 'Z'

Options that are irrelevent to Windows are ignored, such as mountname, filesystem, mountpoint and volgroupname.

If your box are not using LVM you must set config.persistent_storage.use_lvm = false.

• Only the VirtualBox provider is supported.

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