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I don't know what qaexl's using but I'm going to guess VirtualBox with http://vagrantup.com/ http://vagrantup.com/ - it's a setup that's worked well for me. Ac
by kree10 15y ago
I don't know what qaexl's using but I'm going to guess VirtualBox with http://vagrantup.com/ http://vagrantup.com/ - it's a setup that's worked well for me.
Activity Monitor tells me my single VM running in the background is taking up less CPU time than Skype (which is also idling in the background).
- qaexl 15y agoOh yeah, Vagrant. That is the name of it. If I had to use VirtualBox, that would be what I would be using to manage the VMs.
- qaexl 15y agokree10, thanks for bringing up Vagrant. I might use it in my next laptop, though I'd have to make some improvements to it.
- rpwilcox 15y agoAbsolutely. I love Vagrant. Last night one of my virtual machines flaked out, and because everything was managed with Puppet, I just deleted the VM and told vagrant to recreate. 10 minutes later I was back in business like nothing happened. Had a physical machine of mine failed it would have been a fun few hours of machine debugging, instead of "oh, I'll just destroy and recreate the VM, no biggy"
- kree10 15y agoInteresting - I see we both have projects on github called "vagrant-base"! On mine (https://github.com/drench/vagrant-base https://github.com/drench/vagrant-base) each branch sets up a different environment (Drupal, node.js, generic "LAMP", etc.). They currently all use shell scripts for initialization, but converting them to Puppet is on the list. I may borrow from your project's Puppet manifest.
- rpwilcox 15y agoAwesome, glad I could help! Puppet is really nice, once you see a few examples of how it works