Virtualize Drupal - Develop powerful websites in virtual Linux using Mac/Windows

Track:

Coder

Experience:

Intermediate

Love the ease of Windows or Mac?
Love Linux servers but hate using X-Windows for daily activities?

If you use WAMP or MAMP, stop kidding yourself. It's too complicated and it becomes a pain when you want to do things like implement memcache.

Snap out of it and get the best of both worlds!
..no you don't need to buy a new computer (unless yours is REALLY OLD)
..and no, you won't be asked to dual-boot.

Learn about VirtualBox and why you should use it with CentOS (hint...that's what the pros do!)

In this session you will learn about:
-Virtualization
-Sun's Virtual Box
-Directory Sharing (Win/OSX -> Virtual Box)
-Pros and Cons

Any time remaining will be spent on Q&A.

Intended audience:

Drupal developers, tech managers, and anyone interested in various development systems.

Questions answered by this session

Question 1:

What is virtualization?

Question 2:

Why use virtualization?

Question 3:

How to setup Sun's VirtualBox?

Question 4:

How to setup and use Drupal in a virtualized environment?

Question 5:

Pros and Cons of Virtualizing local development.

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Comments

Duplicate?

Posted by Larry Garfield on Mon, 2010-11-29 03:43

This sounds very similar to http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/developing-drupal-windows-machine

Perhaps the two of you could get together and merge into one uber-session?

This session will focus on...

Posted by Eric Spector MSc, PMP on Mon, 2010-12-13 17:52

Sounds like there are some similarities.

However, this session will focus on:
1. Getting the Virtual machine setup with CentOS. This is very important, as most major servers are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It’s critical to get your development environment as close to the production environment as possible.
2. This session will advocate sharing the code directory through Samba or VirtualBox. We’ll go over the pro’s and cons of using Samba and VirtualBox’s file sharing feature. As well as how to set that up.

You want to TRUST your production environment to Red Hat, your job depends on it!
Developing in Ubuntu leaves room for errors, as it's a totally different environment.

Leave nothing to chance.

-Eric Spector, RHCT