[ruskimalooski]

About a year ago I was on a big vagrant craze. We develop applications in JS and our primary deployment platform was Linux. We were hoping that if we developed in a linux environment, it would work better and it seemed like a pretty good idea. After a lot of usage, its slowness and quirks/bugs made it a bigger pain to use.

At least for our usage, it was pretty simple to switch our JS dev environment to support Windows (the primary development platform of our developers) without much hassle.

For now, If I need a VM, I'll stick to virtual box and maintain a persistent development environment, rather than something configurable and replicatable.

In the future I'd love to see someone take something like Docker and turn it into a development environment platform.

[pan69]

When I first started to use Vagrant I had slowness issues as well. However, through a bit of digging around I figured out that by mounting the shared folder through NFS and to create a swap file, pretty much all slowness issues disappeared.

[bpicolo]

It generally works, but debugging between components in different containers can be a real pain. For languages that don't support remote debugging in some sense you can be SOL (though that is perhaps true in vagrantland too)