Having discovered vagrant and veewee recently at OR2012 I’ve been building a few boxes for our site for testing purposes. I’ve had to relearn puppet to provision machines, but it’s paying off. I’ve been able to deploy 3-4 virtual machines with relative ease.
The only disappointment is the seemingly frequent and semi-random kernel panics and crashes that I get on OSX (which is probably caused by VirtualBox when I do lots of IO). It’s making me rethink if I really want to stick with OSX as my primary desktop OS in work. I may have to revert back to using Linux at somepoint.
At least in Linux I know how to get a kdump out and debug the issue but with OSX I’m not sure where I should begin to figure out what’s broken.