Hi Justin,

I have considered this - I saw it set up on someone's laptop at DrupalCon Paris and it seemed like a great idea, not least because it allowed for website testing in multiple virtualised platforms.

I guess what I'd like to do is set up Ubuntu Server in Virtualbox, set up Drupal on that server, and then access it both from the native Mac environment, Windows 7 running on Virtualbox and Windows XP running on Parallels. I'm cool with setting up the virtual machines and there are doubtless loads of good tutorials on how to set up D7 on Ubuntu Server. It would be great to get some help - or pointers to good tutorials - on how to interconnect the Virtualbox VM with both the native Mac OS X and the virtualised Windows installations, so that the Ubuntu Server VM looks like a server from those platforms - i.e., so I can access it via an IP address in a browser, and connect to it via SSH, FTP etc. Any help you can give on this would be great.

Thanks!

--Jim

2009/10/16 justin randell <justin.randell@gmail.com>
hi,

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:18 PM, James Benstead
<james.benstead@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Thanks for this, and for your help on the forums in trying to get DAMP
> working for me - it certainly seems to offer really useful features, so I'll
> persevere with getting it to work on my Mac.

a bit late in the game, but just to throw in another approach.

have you thought about using a linux virtual machine via virtualbox
(or similar)? you can then target the platform (and distro if you need
to) that your code is most likely to run on without regard for your
desktop environment. its also straight forward to share the files from
or to the VM, so you can edit them as if they were local on your
desktop.

if you're interested in any more specifics, i'd be happy to help out.

cheers
justin