Especially with utilities such as Vagrant[0], for which there are many ready-made boxes[1] that make short work of spinning up new VMs. My main development "box

Especially with utilities such as Vagrant[0], for which there are many ready-made boxes[1] that make short work of spinning up new VMs. My main development "box" is a VM on a win host and it works wonderfully. [0]: http://vagrantup.com/ http://vagrantup.com/ [1]: http://www.vagrantbox.es/ http://www.vagrantbox.es/