With some scripting on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) we can simple generate fully customised Drupal LAMP development servers, as virtual appliance to VMware, or to other virtualization environments like XEN or KVM. In this how-to I'll show how to use this method to have various development or test servers in one hardware box running Ubuntu 8.10 and VMware Server 2.0.

I'm using a machine with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and VMware Server 2.0, as my host system. VMware Server 2.0 install on Ubuntu 8.10. can be learned here or here. We will need free IP addresses for the virtual machines, so you will need a properly configured DHCP server or a router, as well.