How to use virtualenv + virtualenvwrapper properly with Vagrant?

Question

I found that the most convenient way of installing virtualenv + virtualenvwrapper is by using virtualenvburrito.

Now I can manage to automate my pip installs in a vagrant provision by the following:

Line in Vagrantfile:

config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "bootstrap.sh"

Lines in bootstrap.sh:

curl -s https://raw.github.com/brainsik/virtualenv-burrito/master/virtualenv-burrito.sh | $SHELL
source /root/.venvburrito/startup.sh
cd /vagrant      
mkvirtualenv my_project
pip install -r requirements.txt 

Then I run vagrant ssh but then I have to run the following to access my virtual environment:

sudo -i
source /root/.venvburrito/startup.sh
workon my_project

I don't want to always have to run sudo -i and source /root/.venvburrito/startup.sh, I just want to be able to run workon my_project directly.

But

(I.) I can't seem to append source /root/.venvburrito/startup.sh to my ~/.profile and

(II.) even if it was appended to that file I'd get a permissionerror. I can't seem to change the permissions for any protected file either.

Answer 1

The best way to deal with (I.) and (II.) is to set the privileged attribute in the Vagrantfile to false.

See here