Running VMWare Fusion 6 Headless

Running VMWare Fusion 6 Headless

VMWare Fusion is great for running all kinds of virtual machines on my Mac and the new version 6 is a great upgrade. I’ll use it to run older versions of Mac OS X for testing, the Internet Explorer VMs from Microsoft for browser compatibility with web apps, and...
Spin Up That Development VM with Vagrant

Spin Up That Development VM with Vagrant

Large hard drives and spare CPU cycles have made running multiple virtual machines off your MacBook feasible, and VirtualBox + Linux have made it free.  But actually setting up a VM for each development project always seemed like a bit too much trouble – until I met...

Get the Right Support

Like many developers, I have several virtual machine (VM) instances for testing different projects. I also tend to keep a few of these virtual machines around for some time for those long running projects spanning multiple years. The vast majority of my VMs are linux...