Drupal VM makes building Drupal development environments quick and easy, and introduces developers to the wonderful world of Drupal development on virtual machines or Docker containers (instead of crufty old MAMP/WAMP-based development). This VM includes many convenient utilities for local development, most of which can be enabled or disabled as you see fit (not everyone needs or wants an extra bundle of junk that they don't care about wasting their workstation's resources!). It should take 5-10 minutes to build or rebuild the VM from scratch on a decent broadband connection. The rest of this README assumes you're using Vagrant and VirtualBox (this is currently the most flexible and widely-used method of using Drupal VM). If you'd like to use Drupal VM with Docker, please read the Drupal VM Docker documentation.
Features
- It should take 5-10 minutes to build or rebuild the VM from scratch on a decent broadband connection
- Blackfire, XHProf, or Tideways for profiling your code
- Selenium, for testing your sites via Behat
- But Drupal VM allows you to build your site exactly how you like
- Almost infinite flexibility and customization
- Download and install Vagrant and VirtualBox