diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f45593912..834829ed3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ BUG FIXES:
   - guests/debian: Force bring up eth0. Fixes hangs on setting hostname.
    [GH-2026]
   - hosts/fedora: properly detect later CentOS versions. [GH-2008]
+  - provisioners/ansible: Execute ansible with a cwd equal to the
+    path where the Vagrantfile is. [GH-2051]
   - provisioners/ansible: No longer report failure on every run. [GH-2007]
   - provisioners/ansible: Properly handle extra vars with spaces. [GH-1984]
   - provisioners/chef: Formatter option works properly. [GH-2058]
diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/provisioner.rb b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/provisioner.rb
index 9dbb1b625..7beab0025 100644
--- a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/provisioner.rb
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/provisioner.rb
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ module VagrantPlugins
         # Write stdout and stderr data, since it's the regular Ansible output
         command << {
           :env => { "ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR" => "true" },
-          :notify => [:stdout, :stderr]
+          :notify => [:stdout, :stderr],
+          :workdir => @machine.env.root_path.to_s
         }
 
         begin