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A virtual machine for Ruby on Rails core development
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Dev box on centos 7 #120

Closed lebogan closed 8 years ago

lebogan commented 8 years ago

Is it possible to build this to run on centos 7 with the same shared folder philosoiphy?

fxn commented 8 years ago

I have never done it, but if you mean that the host machine runs CentOS, as far as I know, it should work just fine.

lebogan commented 8 years ago

Thanks for  the reply. Apologies if I wasn't very clear. I want the guest to run CentOS from my Fedora host. Lewis On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 23:15 -0700, Xavier Noria wrote:

I have never done it, but if you mean that the host machine runs CentOS, as far as I know, it should work just fine.

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fxn commented 8 years ago

In theory that can be done, but this repo won't work as is. It would be trivial to change the base image, but the guest is provisioned using apt-get. See bootstrap.sh.

You could take this project as a model, though, and replicate the same idea for CentOS. Shared folders are a feature of VirtualBox, does not depend on the guest as long as it is supported.

lebogan commented 8 years ago

Thanks, I'll close this and give it a shot.

fxn commented 8 years ago

Let me comment this project is fine as is and does not want to support other guest OS.

Surely you want to give it a shot for personal use (in which case go for it!), but let me just clarify this, wouldn't like that you work on a patch that would not be accepted.