I tried this on a recent couple projects and it failed miserably on both of them for completely different reasons. On one, the architecture of the project dicta

I tried this on a recent couple projects and it failed miserably on both of them for completely different reasons. On one, the architecture of the project dictated really really fast network connections and the overhead from the VM choked the project. That's probably an unfair example because this was actually a toy project that was never meant to run in a serious environment (hence the requirement of a huge bandwidth virtually 0 latency network connection). The other failure however is more serious. Our company (and at least one project) dictates a Windows based development environment, and the abysmal performance of NTFS combined with a massive project code base meant it was taking 2+ minutes just to run a status check on the version controlled code. I think given a Linux host environment this might work better, or a smaller code base, but at least in these two situations it was a failure.