[angersock]

Have you tried just using Virtualbox with a lightweight Linux distro like BunsenLabs?

Not through vagrant, just a normal Linux desktop (that happens to live in a virtualbox). I do all my web work this way, and it works just fine.

[dillonraphael]

I'm going to go this route. Except, I'll stick with Ubuntu

[sdomino]

Have you tried http://nanobox.io/?