File provisioner slow

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I am using Vagrant 1.7.4 and Virtualbox 5.0.4 on Windows 8.1.

I am provisioning CoreOS machines, so virtual box guest extensions are not available.

In my vagrant file, I need to use the provisioner to copy a file that's around 500MB onto the VM.

I have found that the copying of the file takes a very long time (~20 minutes).

Is there anyway to improve the speed of the file provisioner?

[dragon788]

You could try using the smbfs file share type to map in a shared folder from Windows and copy from that location rather than having Vagrant (Ruby/SSH) copy it in through its own processes.