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[Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've heard (second hand) that some developers have found it very useful
to do their Launchpad development in VMs.  Then you can hose your
Postgres DBs with impunity, not worry about running rocketfuel-setup as
root, not worry about modifying /etc/hosts, etc.

Does anyone here have experience doing Launchpad development in a VM?
And if so, would you like to document it in the wiki, probably linked to
from https://dev.launchpad.net/Running?  Even just a brief mention of
what VM package you used, along with any special configuration, would
help -- at least it would remind people that this route is available.

(Note we already have https://dev.launchpad.net/Running/Schroot linked
from Running, offering similar benefits.  But IIUC going the full VM
route is somewhat different from just running in a chroot jail.)

-Karl