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For the last ~15 years I've developed by running a Web server on my laptop. Using a virtual machine this week; I'll never go back.
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@stevenrosenberg @evan sounds like a good idea
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Could you elaborate on that? I have a few lines to type and my web server is set up, but I want to know if there is a better way to do it.
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@evan vm on your laptop? ;-)
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Where have you been all these years? My favorite was virtualbox until Oracle bought Sun.
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Yes, a VM on my laptop. Using KVM. It's nice.
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I can't figure out how to config a VM in VirtualBox that I can address from my notebook, and can still apt-get update.
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Yeah, like a million times. I find it totally inscrutable.
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One way is with 2 networks, one NAT and one host-only. Have you read http://ur1.ca/85i75
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I always use Bridged, which is fine if you don't move between networks a lot (or want to connect to the VM when you're not on a network).
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@warp well, whatever virtmanager/kvm/qemu combo does by default works just how I want it to.
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Does the 2 network approach make sense to you, or would you like some more details?
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I'm more or less happy with what I've got and don't see enough in VirtualBox to make it worth switching.
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@evan: Only reason to switch to Virtualbox is if you're doing anything graphically heavy. KVM is pretty slow in that regard.
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Right; I've never made KVM do 3D-accelerated graphics. But I don't need that for a dev web server.
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OK, I'm trying it out this morning. I'm tempted by Vagrant, want to give it a shot.
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