Michal, To answer one question quickly: inotify doesn't work with VMware shared folders, either.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Michal Szczesny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've been a vagrant user for a while now, but I only used it with the > default Virtualbox provider. > > One key issue I'm really frustrated with is that the file changes I make > on the host, that are synced to the VM as expected - do not trigger > appropriate events on the guest, which means I cannot run any inotify based > watchers on the guest. I have found no way to make inotifywait on the host > work yet. > > In few places I read that this is Virtualbox's fault and I was wondering > if this issue is resolved with VMWare as the provider. However - I tried to > "see" for myself - downloaded the trial version of VMWare and there's no > way for me to run it with vagrant without an actual licence. Before I spend > some $£€ on a licence - I'd like to know if this particular feature works > with VMW. > > I hope one of you awesome people has an answer to one of the below > questions: > - Can one successfully run an inotify based shared folder file watcher on > an Ubuntu guest with a VMWare backend? > - Is there any way to run Vagrant with VMWare that is in trial? I keep > getting *"A valid license is required to run the Vagrant VMware provider"* - > if I could make this work I could at least see it for myself > > Best, > Michal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
