I have set up a Drupal development environment, running as a virtual machine on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) host and VMware Server 1.0.4. It results in an virtual Ubuntu LAMP server, configured for Drupal development. Each configuration tip, PHP or database version, try-and-error game or development project can have its own "guest" environment, but your "host" environment remain clear and simple.

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