vagrant ash: sudo: not found

Question

When starting my vagrant box with a small 15MB Busybox image, the first time I get an error during the phase

Mounting shared folders...

It seems vagrant is trying something with sudo, which isn't istalled. I get this error:

The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

mkdir -p /vagrant

Stdout from the command:



Stderr from the command:

ash: sudo: not found

It works so far, I can login as root with the password vagrant, but I guess this is not perfect?

This is my setup: https://github.com/rubo77/ffnord-example/blob/pyddhcpd/Vagrantfile

  config.ssh.username = 'root'
  config.ssh.password = 'vagrant'
  config.ssh.insert_key = 'true'
  config.ssh.shell = 'ash'
  (0..9).each do |i|
        config.vm.define "gc-node0#{i}" do |node|
        end
  end

Answer 1

By default vagrant share/sync the directory /vagrant (guest) with the current project directory, the one containing the Vagrantfile (host), more directories can be shared using config.vm.synced_folder, I don't know if the default /vagrant can be disabled.

If you aren't using the shared directories feature then the missing sudo isn't a problem.

If your filesystem is writeable you can create the /vagrant directory once, so on next up vagrant shouldn't try to sudo mkdir again;

but assuming you're using VirtualBox (I don't know about others emulator behavior/architecture) you'll face another problem, shared directories require the kernel modules vboxsf and vboxguest (from VirtualBox Guest Additions) to be built (against the running kernel sources) and loaded (insmod), and the command mount.vboxsf to be built and installed in /sbin, plus your busybox require the option mount helpers enabled because vagrant use mount -t vboxsf and not mount.vboxsf directly, when vagrant try to mount the shared directories and those requirements aren't matched there is a long timeout before failing with error (a minute/two or more).

Notice that busybox (current stable) support sudo, is just disabled by default.

If you're building the buildroot yourself from sources I can tell that the shared feature works (I managed to get an image with busybox to work as vagrant expect), if you're using some pre-built kernel/busybox... may be a problem, you have to find matching binaries for vboxsf, vboxguest, mount.vboxsf and if the mount helpers option is disabled in your busybox you need to find a workaround (perhaps modifying vagrant to use mount.vboxsf).