Here's an introduction guide and tutorial to Vagrant, a cross-platform virtualization management software capable of working with VirtualBox, VMware, KVM, Amazon EC2 servers, and others, covering setup, initialization and startup errors and tweaks, how to get new images, how to run new instances, SSH connectivity, other tips and tricks, and more. Take a look. http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/vagrant-intro.html Cheers, Mrk