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 command vagrant up. The Vagrantfile is the same file that I used on my windows 7 system. This is the content of the Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.box = "debian/jessie64"

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "768"]
end
config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"

config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "172.27.146.17"
config.vm.hostname = "www.delevensstijl.hst1.nl"
config.hostsupdater.aliases = ["www.thelifestylemethod.hst1.nl"]

end

The error I get: "rsync" could not be found on your PATH. Make sure that rsync is properly installed on your system and available on the PATH.

Why is Vagrant looking for rsync since I use Virtualbox? How can I workaround this error?

Answer 1

I found in another forum that the local Vagrant directory is mounted as "/vagrant" via rsync. This is set in the box itself, you can check by opening

C:\Users\{your_username}\.vagrant.d\boxes\debian-VAGRANTSLASH-jessie64\8.2.2\virtualbox\Vagrantfile

and see the setting

  config.vm.synced_folder \
    ".",
    "/vagrant",
    type: "rsync"

to get around this I added the following line in my local Vagrantfile

  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "virtualbox"

and the error was resolved