I have a Vagrant / Ansible set up on my Windows host. Ansible is set up to run on the Ubuntu guest, as `Vagrant up` executes a shell script which copies the `provisioning yml` files onto the guest and installs Ansible also on the guest.

The script runs the Ansible set up on the guest with the following command:

```
# Ansible installations
sudo apt-get install -y ansible

# Copy all Ansible scripts to the ubuntu guest
sudo cp -rf -v /vagrant/provisioning /home/vagrant/

# cp /vagrant/hosts /home/vagrant/
sudo chmod 666 /home/vagrant/provisioning/hosts

# Install roles
sudo ansible-playbook /home/vagrant/provisioning/local.yml -i /home/vagrant/provisioning/hosts --connection=local

```

One of the steps in the Ansible configuration process is setting up a fresh copy of Laravel in the `/var/www` directory. After pulling in Laravel, my script then copies and then edits the `.env` file in document root (`/var/www`).

But therein is the problem, it fails with `text file busy` message. This is a copy that is happening on the guest as source and destination, so I guess nothing to do with VBox. I have a feeling it has to do with the file name being so unusual, but I have not found an answer.

My `task.yml` file for Laravel is:

```
---
- name: Clone git repository
  git: >
      dest=/var/www
      repo=https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git
      update=no
  sudo: yes
  sudo_user: www-data
  register: cloned

- name: copy .env file
  copy: src=env.j2 dest={{ conf_file }}

- name: set APP_DOMAIN={{ server_name }}
  lineinfile: dest=/var/www/.env regexp='^APP_DOMAIN=' line=APP_DOMAIN={{ server_name }}

```

I have also tried using the template method with the same error:

```
- name: copy .env file
  template: src=env.j2 dest={{ conf_file }}

```

My conf file contains:

```
conf_file: /var/www/.env

```

It fails at the copy step as follows:

```
==> default: TASK: [laravel | copy .env file] **********************************************
==> default: failed: [10.0.1.10] => {"failed": true, "md5sum": "a380715fa81750708f7b9b6fea1a48fe"}
==> default: msg: Could not replace file: /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1441176559.19-197929606462535/source to /var/www/.env: [Errno 26] Text file busy
==> default:
==> default: FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
==> default:
==> default: PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
==> default:            to retry, use: --limit @/root/local.retry
==> default:
==> default: 10.0.1.10                  : ok=21   changed=18   unreachable=0    failed=1
The SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant
assumes that this means the command failed. The output for this command
should be in the log above. Please read the output to determine what
went wrong.

```

The `.env` source file is in a folder called `files` off the Laravel task folder, same as other items I configure which work OK. The file `.env` is not found in the `www` folder after it fails so it does not copy it.