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Make use of Vagrant

etting up virtual machines from scratch is all well and good, but if you wanted to set up a whole fleet of them (or even if you keep breaking one and having to set it up again from scratch), then some degree of automation is desirable. There are a few options here. One would be to take regular snapshots of the VMs state, so that if it breaks you can revert it to a known good state. has a simple Snapshot option in the options menu and is available from the toolbar. VMs (and snapshots of VMs) in can also be cloned, so

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