Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtual machines?

Posted by aismail on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:37AM
from the ask-hn dept.

My team and I are all frustrated by the current state of things: when you develop your code inside a virtual machine, all code sharing mechanisms seem to suck.

What do you currently use?

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtua... by stephenr on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:12PM (#12009537)

It's far from perfect but vagrant + provider of your choice (I'm using parallels for now, but will probably switch to Veertu when they have vagrant support) works well enough for me.

Even if you need to do things directly in the vm, this is still a workable solution I'd imagine.

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtua... by mtmail on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:44AM (#12009332)

What have you tried already? Do you have examples of mechanisms that suck? It would also help to learn which operating system(s) are involved.

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtua... by aismail on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:31PM (#12009681)

My primary dev machine is MacOS. I'm using generally VMWare or VirtualBox to virtualize Linux machines. I'm really frustrated with what they offer :)

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtua... by smt88 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @11:44AM (#12009334)

Rsync or lsyncd

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtua... by dman on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:33PM (#12009700)

Git

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Re:Ask HN: Engineers, how do you share code with your virtua... by Cypher on Thursday June 30, 2016 @12:11PM (#12009529)

dropbox!

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