Posted by Michael Hofmockel on June 14, 2010 at 3:29am
I just finished building a Mercury VirtualBox appliance to serve as a development environment. Check it out - http://michaelhofmockel.com/toughts/virtualbox-mercury
The readme will help you setup networking and supply credentials.
Thanks ChapterThree for Mercury!
Thanks Greg for you instructions (no problems following them).

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Nifty. Thanks. I just
Nifty. Thanks.
I just imported the appliance and it is working. If I am mistaken, it is missing the settings.php edits as per http://getpantheon.com/documentation/performance-configuration. So, no memcache, reverse proxy, external page cache. Is that deliberate? Am I missing something?
The terminal in this appliance seems to scroll really slowly as if screen redraw is impaired? Any ideas? I doubt this affects web serving.
I was about to do the same,
I was about to do the same, Thanks Michael.
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