Pretty much every desktop virtualization package supports setting up shared folders to facilitation moving files between the host and guest OS. I know for a fac

Pretty much every desktop virtualization package supports setting up shared folders to facilitation moving files between the host and guest OS. I know for a fact that VMWare Fusion on OS X does this, though the preference tab to enable it did take a little bit of searching to find. That being said, if your goal is to develop in an environment more like your production system(s), you're going to need to work out your automated deployment model sooner than later, anyway. You may as well do it locally, where the cost of a screw-up deployment is effectively nil.