Here I'll find some of the steps I did when setting up VMware fusion for development. They've been collected using an Ubuntu 14.04; hopefully they'll be useful for other versions as well.

Set up ssh on the target image

sudo apt-get install openssh-server
scp [email protected]:/Users/zaccaria/.ssh/id_rsa.pub /home/zaccaria/.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo restart ssh

test it with:

ssh [email protected]

VMWare tools suck. To set up folder sharing, I've used sshfs in this way:

On the Mac:

mkdir /Volumes/Ubuntu
sshfs [email protected]:/home/zaccaria /Volumes/Ubuntu

To setup the env, we'll use ansible with the playbook in the ansible directory:

cd ansible
ansible-playbook deploy.yml -i host-list.ini -K

where:

• -K asks for the sudo password.
• -i specifies the target host(s)
• deploy.yml is the top level deployment file

scp ~/.gitconfig [email protected]:/home/zaccaria
scp ~/.gitignore_global [email protected]:/home/zaccaria