I've been getting some questions lately about how to start and shutdown a VirtualBox VM automatically after showing how to set up a virtualized Development Environment for Drupal 10 / 11 on a past blog so I'm writing this post to guide you on how to make a VirtualBox VM start and shutdown when your System boots-up or shuts-down/restarts so all your PHP apps hosted under this architecture will be available without having to manually turn on your VM's as if you were using any Docker solution.On this post I'm focusing primarily on Mac OS 13.7 and above and Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 all running…
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Hi, on this blog post I'll will show you how to set up a Drupal Development Environment under VirtualBox which is a virtualization tool that allows us to create Virtual Machines or in our case Virtual Private Servers (VPS).I'm writing this post so developers can have a different alternative to the current Dockerized solutions such as Lando, Docksal or DDEV since I have found, during the time these tools are out, developers struggling a lot with their configuration, performance and set up of Drupal projects. Even though I agree they can save us sometime with some processes once a project is…
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