...but also much faster than normal/native shared folders: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-vmware-7-vs-virtualbox-5-benchmarks http://w

...but also much faster than normal/native shared folders: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-vmware-7-vs-virtualbox-5-benchmarks http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/vagrant-vmw... NFS can be useful in many scenarios, but using native FS (or using rsync to sync instead of mount a shared folder) is always going to win that battle.