Here's what I do to gain some other benefits:
- I let Vagrant dynamically generate the hosts file that is later used by 
Ansible.
- the Vagrant boxes use a different subnet thus not conflicting with the 
corner case described above.

On Wednesday, 13 August 2014 16:59:52 UTC+2, Jeppe Toustrup wrote:
>
> Sorry for bringing up a (somewhat) old topic, but what about the use case 
> where Ansible is used to configure a Vagrant VM? In that case the VM would 
> be accessible through 127.0.0.1:2222, and thus get hit by the special 
> handling in the synchronization module. This means if you want to write to 
> a path where the unprivileged/'vagrant' user doesn't have write 
> permissions, you will have to add the non-obvious 'rsync_path="sudo rsync"' 
> to your task configuration, instead of just adding 'sudo: True' like 
> everywhere else in order to get the same result.
>
> I don't know if there's a good way to detect situations like this so 
> 'sudo: True' can have the proper effect. If not, then I think it might be 
> worth mentioning explicitly in the documentation for the module.
>

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