diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ca81d44..ec6d2fa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import setuptools
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1.dev44',
+        version='1.1.dev45',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/vagrant/Vagrantfile b/vagrant/Vagrantfile
index c4eab85..820c7fa 100644
--- a/vagrant/Vagrantfile
+++ b/vagrant/Vagrantfile
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
   config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
   config.vm.hostname = "brozzler-easy"
 
+  config.vm.synced_folder "..", "/brozzler"
+
   config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
     ansible.playbook = "ansible/playbook.yml"
     ansible.groups = {
diff --git a/vagrant/ansible/roles/brozzler-worker/tasks/main.yml b/vagrant/ansible/roles/brozzler-worker/tasks/main.yml
index f2a4e23..c514cf4 100644
--- a/vagrant/ansible/roles/brozzler-worker/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/vagrant/ansible/roles/brozzler-worker/tasks/main.yml
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
     - restart vnc-websock
 - name: install brozzler in virtualenv
   become: true
-  pip: name=git+https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler.git#egg=brozzler
+  pip: # name=git+https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler.git#egg=brozzler
+       name='-e /brozzler'
        virtualenv=/home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34
        virtualenv_python=python3.4
        extra_args='--no-input --upgrade --pre'
diff --git a/vagrant/ansible/roles/rethinkdb/tasks/main.yml b/vagrant/ansible/roles/rethinkdb/tasks/main.yml
index 7083a14..77bbb89 100644
--- a/vagrant/ansible/roles/rethinkdb/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/vagrant/ansible/roles/rethinkdb/tasks/main.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
   become: true
   notify:
     - restart rethinkdb
+- name: ensure rethinkdb starts on reboot
+  service: name=rethinkdb enabled=yes
 - name: ensure rethinkdb instance config file is installed
   template: src=templates/rethinkdb-brozzler-easy.conf.j2
             dest=/etc/rethinkdb/instances.d/rethinkdb-brozzler-easy.conf