Managing /etc/hosts on the host only (not on guests)?

[tknerr]

Is it possible to have the plugin manage only the /etc/hosts on the host machine, but not on the guest?

Use case is that I'm using Chef for provisioning on the guest which already takes care of the hosts file. It would be useful though to access the Vagrant VMs via their hostname from the host.

Probably this is already possible, but looking at the available config options it is at least not clear to me.

[pbitty]

@tknerr Currently there is no option to disable updating the hosts file on the guests. Perhaps we could add on option like manage_guest which could be used per-machine and default to true globally.

Something like this?

config.vm.define :server1 do |machine|
  # ... machine config ...
  machine.hostmanager.manage_guest = false # don't touch the hosts file of this machine
end

config.vm.define :server2 do |machine|
  # ... machine config ...
  # manage_guest = true by default
end

What do you think? Is this something you'd be interested in contributing?

[damienjoldersma]

I just created pull request #125 which simply adds a flag similar to manage host for managing guest.

[ekohlwey]

+1

[HadesArchitect]

Any updates? We also need this option. Thanks!