vagrant-cachier-ng/docs/index.md

# vagrant-cachier

A [Vagrant](http://www.vagrantup.com/) plugin that helps you reduce the amount of
coffee you drink while waiting for boxes to be provisioned by sharing a common
package cache among similiar VM instances. Kinda like [vagrant-apt_cache](https://github.com/avit/vagrant-apt_cache)
or [this magical snippet](http://gist.github.com/juanje/3797297) but targetting
multiple package managers and Linux distros.


## Installation

Make sure you have Vagrant 1.4+ and run:

```
vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier
```

## Quick start

The easiest way to set things up is just to enable [cache buckets auto detection](usage)
from within your `Vagrantfile`:

```ruby
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = 'your-box'
  if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-cachier")
    # Configure cached packages to be shared between instances of the same base box.
    # More info on the "Usage" link above
    config.cache.scope = :box

    # OPTIONAL: If you are using VirtualBox, you might want to use that to enable
    # NFS for shared folders. This is also very useful for vagrant-libvirt if you
    # want bi-directional sync
    config.cache.synced_folder_opts = {
      type: :nfs,
      # The nolock option can be useful for an NFSv3 client that wants to avoid the
      # NLM sideband protocol. Without this option, apt-get might hang if it tries
      # to lock files needed for /var/cache/* operations. All of this can be avoided
      # by using NFSv4 everywhere. Please note that the tcp option is not the default.
      mount_options: ['rw', 'vers=3', 'tcp', 'nolock']
    }
  end
end
```

For more information please check out the links on the menu above.


## Providers that are known to work

* Vagrant's built in VirtualBox provider
* [vagrant-lxc](https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc)
* [VMware providers](http://www.vagrantup.com/vmware) with NFS enabled (See
  [GH-24](https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-cachier/issues/24) for more info)
* [vagrant-libvirt](https://github.com/pradels/vagrant-libvirt)
* [vagrant-kvm](https://github.com/adrahon/vagrant-kvm)

_Please note that as of v0.6.0 the plugin will automatically disable any
previously defined configs for [cloud providers](lib/vagrant-cachier/plugin.rb#L19-22)_


## Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create new Pull Request