Parrot is a utility VM for Drupal development. It's not your development environment, but it's the complex, hard to set up, servers you'll need.

Simple and repeatable, that is what the Parrot VM is all about.

• Vagrant
• Virtualbox or VMWare Fusion
• Unix based host system
• Lots of free RAM
• Vagrant cachier plugin (optional)

A quick script to get you started off with flying speeds! With curl:

curl -L https://github.com/lslinnet/parrot/raw/master/quick-start.sh | sh

Or with wget:

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/lslinnet/parrot/raw/master/quick-start.sh -O - | sh

More will be added here when time presents it self! You will need to clone this repo to your host machine, and then cd into the directory and run:

vagrant up

That's it!

If you want to use your VMWare Fusion Vagrant provider, then run:

vagrant up --provider=vmware_fusion

For detailed instructions on how to use all the features provided by Parrot, see the wiki.

You can configure the VM that Parrot provisions read the configuration page in the wiki for more details.

• A Solr 4 server running customisable configs.
• A MySQL server
• SSH agent forwarding
• HTTP Stack
  • Varnish 3
  • Apache 2
• PHP
• XDebug

Receive emails from vagrant

1. Open your mail client
2. Add a new account
3. Set it up like this: