Hey Martin. I guess – it depends.® The question is: which problem are you trying to solve? Vagrant started out as a tool to simplify the process of setting up virtual machines for local development. The benefit: coherent development environments.
The setup you're describing sounds a lot more like having 'thin clients' for your developers – probably so they don't have to set up Eclipse on their own. If Eclipse is the problem, you might want to look for ways to automate the setup & deployment of the IDE (and the plugin) on your employees workstations. I could imagine that not everybody will be happy working with a Java GUI, running inside a virtual machine on a remote host. :) Bascht On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:00:21PM -0700, Martin Schmid wrote: > Hello folks, > > > the situation: > > My boss wants me to automate the process of configuring systems for new > employees. His "vision" is that we would install a naked system and have > the users connect to a virtual machine on a server. This virtual machine > should run everything the users need to develop their applications - most > namely Eclipse with a fairly specific plugin. > > So, I started doing research on Vagrant. While it seems to be a fantastic > tool I'm simply not sure it is what I need. Most people using vagrant seem > to develop on their local machine and use the vagrant-managed VM to > simulate development environments along the lines of an apache webserver. > > So my question is: > > Is it viable to use Vagrant to create machines provisioned with a Linux GUI > (Xfce would be preferred), Eclipse and a few other smaller programs? > Updating the image should be a fairly simple process. The Clients are then > supposed to connect to the server via PuTTy, ssh into their vagrant box and > find themselves inside a fully operational linux that is preconfigured with > eclipse. > > I realize this is a fairly broad question, but so far my research has not > yielded a sufficient answer. > > Best Regards > > MS. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Sebastian Schulze | jabber: [email protected] | http: http://bascht.com | gpg: 0xBC21CEC5 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
