Setting Up an Ubuntu VM, Step by Step

1 ยท Juan Treminio ยท April 22, 2012, 2 a.m.
This tutorial has been replaced by Setting Up a Debian VM, Step by Step. Recently on r/php there was a thread asking users about their development environments. The usual answers came tumbling out โ€“ mostly about IDEs and methods for uploading their code (side note: FTP is a horrible way to do this!). Out of 144 responses, I noticed that very few mentioned virtual machines. Most that said anything about operating systems or platforms made it clear they were developing on their local machine, wit...