Hi debian-cloud,
TL;DR: Is there any interest in having this project publish an image that does support the vboxsf filesystem? I would be hugely in favor of that. I can possibly contribute work toward generating a second image called (e.g.)
https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian/boxes/jessie64-contrib-vboxsf if that's helpful to separate it from the official one, since I appreciate the goal of shipping an image that contains 100% packages from "Debian main".
Details:
I work on
https://sandstorm.io/ , an open source project (and company), which for debian-cloud's purposes is a web app package manager that runs on Debian (and other GNU/Linux distributions).
We like using Vagrant because it allows Windows & Mac OS-based people to use our vagrant-spk (Python script) to make Sandstorm packages.
As possibly-relevant context, I'm also a Debian developer, so I have an account on alioth etc.
We rely on vboxsf for file sharing because it provides a much smoother experience -- people can edit the files on their host operating system. Honestly, this one feature is the thing I like the most about Vagrant.
I'd like to keep using a Debian base image as the base image for the Vagrantfile that Sandstorm's vagrant-spk tool generates. But I appreciate that it's nice to have a 100% main image. Maybe a useful compromise would be to publish another image that *does* contain vboxsf?
-- Asheesh.