[petsc-dev] [Andy Ray Terrel] Re: [dev at libelemental.org] Vagrantfiles

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 8, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Jed Brown wrote:
> 
>> I know we chatted about it, but Vagrant does look easy to use and may be
>> lighter weight than what Satish tried.  I don't personally like using
>> VMs, but it would probably help some people.
> 
> Does 'Vagrant' run images remotely - and you get to ssh to it via vagrant local client?

   I took a quick look at the docs. It seems to run the VM locally but you ssh to get into it as opposed to it taking over the entire machine maybe?  There is a download button on the front page, try it out, see what happens.

   Barry

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> Satish