rsync error on Vagrant up with Centos 7 - centos

Question

I want to move to a virtualbox environment on my new laptop so wanted to test out vagrant. However I havent been able to get past Vagrant up without one error after another, I have got through a number of errors and now im stuck.
Rsync is always failing to exec ssh (full error below)
Platform Windows 7 pro SP1.
Cygwin installed with Rsync.
Vagrant installed
Virtualbox installed
Putty.exe on my desktop.
Git installed.
rsync and putty added to end of sytstem path like
..;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin;C:\Users\paul\Desktop\putty.exe;C:\cygwin64\bin;C:\Program
Files\Git\cmd
Vagrant file consists of (including a windows/rsync error fix)
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.box = "centos/7"
ENV["VAGRANT_DETECTED_OS"] = ENV["VAGRANT_DETECTED_OS"].to_s + " cygwin"
end
I also tried changing line 43 in C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gems\gems\vagrant-1.6.X\plugins\synced_folders\rsync\helper.rb to hostpath = "/cygdrive" + Vagrant::Util::Platform.cygwin_path(hostpath)
instead of putting it in the vagrant file.
Still I cant get rsync to work. Im not even sure why it needs to do this on 'up' anyway.
im running vagrant up from cmd here is the full output.
C:\Users\paul\Projects\gettingStarted-centos7>vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Checking if box 'centos/7' is up to date...
==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
default: Adapter 1: nat
==> default: Forwarding ports...
default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
default: SSH username: vagrant
default: SSH auth method: private key
default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying...
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
default: No guest additions were detected on the base box for this VM! Guest
default: additions are required for forwarded ports, shared folders, host on
ly
default: networking, and more. If SSH fails on this machine, please install
default: the guest additions and repackage the box to continue.
default:
default: This is not an error message; everything may continue to work prope
rly,
default: in which case you may ignore this message.
==> default: Rsyncing folder: /cygdrive/c/Users/paul/Projects/gettingStarted-cen
tos7/ => /home/vagrant/sync
There was an error when attempting to rsync a synced folder.
Please inspect the error message below for more info.
Host path: /cygdrive/c/Users/paul/Projects/gettingStarted-centos7/
Guest path: /home/vagrant/sync
Command: rsync --verbose --archive --delete -z --copy-links --chmod=ugo=rwX --no
-perms --no-owner --no-group --rsync-path sudo rsync -e ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHos
tKeyChecking=no -o IdentitiesOnly=true -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -i 'C:/Us
ers/paul/Projects/gettingStarted-centos7/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/pr
ivate_key' --exclude .vagrant/ /cygdrive/c/Users/paul/Projects/gettingStarted-ce
ntos7/ vagrant#127.0.0.1:/home/vagrant/sync
Error: rsync: Failed to exec ssh: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(85) [sender=3.1.1]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [sender=
3.1.1]

Answer 1

On the blocking point, ssh is not installed or not configured to run (as confirmed by the ops) so it throws the error (also commented on github issue)
As a side note, it can be good to install the vagrant vbguest plugin so you'll get rid of the warnings. vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest will take care of installing the vbguest, shared folder will work better with the guest additions.