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While going through Vagrant tutorials, I have seen two options for sharing folders between host and guest machines - shared folders and synced folders. What are the difference between them?
Or, is synced folder the new name for shared folder, in Vagrant 2?
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By default, Vagrant shares your project directory (the one containing the Vagrantfile) to the /vagrant directory in your guest machine.
vagrant on the other hand is in you environment/project directory and holds individual projects settings i.e. your current VM settings. Whenever you create and execute a vagrantfile, a . vagrant directory is created with VM specific data.
A Basic Vagrantfile A Vagrantfile is a Ruby file that instructs Vagrant to create, depending on how it is executed, new Vagrant machines or boxes. You can see a box as a compiled Vagrantfile. It describes a type of Vagrant machines. From a box, we can create new Vagrant machines.
NFS is a faster way of sharing your project's files between host and guests that sync the files instantly. To use NFS with Vagrant, nfs-utils package needs to be installed and nfs-server needs to be running. If it is not, run: $ sudo dnf install nfs-utils && sudo systemctl enable nfs-server.
Shared Folders is more VirtualBox specific (vboxsf) and have known performance issues as number of files grows.
Vagrant v2 (For vagrant 1.1.x and 1.2.x) docs use a more generic name Synced Folder, which includes the default vboxsf and NFS.
In addition to vboxsf and NFS, sshfs is also worth looking into if your host is running Linux.
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As you guessed, synced folder is the new, more generic name for a feature that is not only VirtualBox specific anymore as of Vagrant 1.1.
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