Any success using Vagrant + Samba for Drupal Projects? I was desperately hoping that I'd be able to mitigate the ridiculously awful performance of Drupal in our Windows + Vagrant dev environments by using Samba rather than Virtualbox shared folders, but so far I've had exactly zero success. Has anyone else succeeded? If so, anything you can share to help?

I haven't been able to get past this error when attempting to mount the network share:


  Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually because
  the "vboxsf" file system is not available. Please verify that
  the guest additions are properly installed in the guest and
  can work properly.


We're running:


Win7/Win8 host
Ubuntu 12.04 guest
Vagrant 1.6.3 + vb-guest plugin
Virtualbox 4.3.12


I've seen indications around the Google-sphere that I can SSH into the guest and do some magical symlinking, but my vagrant box is powered off when the mount fails. I can't access the box.

Help?
The git project Druphpet is doing exactly what you want to achieve.
https://github.com/alehkot/druphpet

It's using a Samba server under your guest(Ubuntu) accessible via Windows explorer: "\192.168.9.10\data"

For sure you Drupal website becomes really fast, because your webserver is accessing files locally(inside Linux)

The only problem with this approach is that every modifications of your Drupal code inside your Windows text editor (themes, custom module...) become slower because not local.

The other problem is that when the vm is off or crashed, you can't access your Drupal files anymore.