!rant
Anyone develop in virtual environment here?

How was your experience?

Mine has been pretty horrendous.
Specs of vm - one core at 2.6ghz and 3Gb ram on win7

I use virtual machines and containers all the time.
My system is much more powerful than yours, though, I'd wager.
I run mine with 4GB RAM and one fourth the system cores (quad core i7), plus SSD
The SSD is what makes most of the difference, since in a VM, I/O and network performance reaaally suffers. I got this SSD specifically to accelerate VMs. Comfortably virtualizes Windows and various Linux distributions on top of Windows 10 with VMware Workstation.

Unless you're running Arch Linux base or something, you need a bit of horsepower to run VMs comfortably.

One thing though, make sure you have installed VirtualBox Guest Add-ons/VMware Tools (or equivalent for your hypervisor). They really, really speed up stuff.

If you don't have a powerful-ish machine, I suggest running VMs without the GUI and not doing much I/O intensive stuff.

Or upgrading to Windows 10 and using the WSL if you need Linux but don't want to install.

@RememberMe i forgot to mention that I access the VM via network as it's an Enterprise VM.

@gsharm5u lol my whole lecture was for nothing then XD

@gsharm5u ugh, why the hell would you do this? Some insane company policy?

@CodeNoir yes :/ . And I use eclipse on that. Fml

I use vagrant, but I'm curious in docker to create multiple vm containers cheaply.

I develop almost exclusively on virtual machines, mostly on azure cause I'm a microwhore, but also on Linux because I'm not a stupid microwhore.