Quickstart: Prebuilt Drupal Development Environment

This project is no longer supported

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Downloads

• Current release: Quickstart 2.0-alpha1 (32 bit)
• ...or Quickstart 1.0: i386 (32-bit) / amd64 (64-bit)

Users of Quickstart 1.0 can update Drush to the latest version here.

Resources

• Demo videos
• Documentation
• Group

Installation

Video, FAQ

1. Download Quickstart Which version?
2. Install Virtualbox (version 4.0.4+)
3. Import Quickstart virtual machine (.ova file) into Virtualbox:
   • Start Virtualbox
   • File -> Import Appliance -> Choose file... -> (select the downloaded ova file)
   • Set RAM to 50% of your system ram. (min 1024mb, max 2048mb)
   • Import -> (wait for import to finish)
   • (Error? FAQ)
4. Start the new machine from the list
5. Start developing! Passwords:
   • Unix = quickstart:quickstart
   • MySQL = root:quickstart
   • Drupal = admin:admin
6. Howto and install videos

What's included

• Support for Drupal 7 and Drupal 6
• Ubuntu Linux, Apache, MySQL, APC, XDebug, IMAP, UploadProgress
• Firefox (with developer plugins) and Chrome
• Drush, drush make, and custom drush commands
• Install scripts for: Apache Solr, Aegir, Hudson, and Oracle
• Netbeans and Eclipse, configured with XDebug
• XHProf and Webgrind profilers. Emails logged as files
• cvs, subversion, git, bazaar

Special thanks

Thanks to OSUOSL (Oregon State Universities Open Source Lab) for hosting the project downloads! Thanks to Killes, Jeff_S, and Lance for making it happen and to Michelle and Sil Kogelman for helping with the process.