I've the problem that my home directory is actually located on a remote server and with ~/.vagrant.d sitting on that server, the performance of vagrant decreases heavily (and file-server backup size increases).
So is there any way to move at least ~/vagrant.d/boxes out of the home directory?
Cheers.
By default Vagrant uses ~/.vagrant.d. Fortunately, vagrant provides an environment variable called VAGRANT_HOME by which you can set vagrant home.
Just do the following to change the vagrant home (this only works in the current session)
export VAGRANT_HOME=/path/to/vagrant
To make it permanent, add this to your ~/.bash_profile (for login shell).
Update: VAGRANT_HOME has been added to the documentation - Environmental Variables
VAGRANT_HOMEcan be set to change the directory where Vagrant stores global state. By default, this is set to~/.vagrant.d. The Vagrant home directory is where things such as boxes are stored, so it can actually become quite large on disk.
an other place (the root place where it read ENV variables) is in shared_helpers.rb, line 71 (vagrant v 1.6.5) :
# This returns the path to the ~/.vagrant.d folder where Vagrant's
# per-user state is stored.
#
# @return [Pathname]
def self.user_data_path
# Use user spcified env var if available
path = ENV["VAGRANT_HOME"]
# On Windows, we default to the USERPROFILE directory if it
# is available. This is more compatible with Cygwin and sharing
# the home directory across shells.
if !path && ENV["USERPROFILE"]
path = "#{ENV["USERPROFILE"]}/.vagrant.d"
end
# Fallback to the default
path ||= "~/.vagrant.d"
Pathname.new(path).expand_path
end
Anyway, I think the best way is to use the environment variable VAGRANT_HOME, in case of vagrant version upgrade.
You can use this function like:
disk_path = self.user_data_path().to_s
