Ask HN: What tools do you use to make programming/editing code on VMs easier?

Typically when I need to develop inside a VM I do my editing inside that VM as well. So my tools would be:

1. Ample memory and power 2. OpenBox (or equivalent lightweight DE) 3. Emacs (or equivalent “light weight” editor/terminal

Also I’ve found that VMware fusion works much smoother for me than virtual box.

I use Vagrant (with parallels provider) to run headless environments but the actual code I write in IDEA ultimate on the macOS host.

I’m not sure I’d want to rely on a vm for my editor.

My Linux VMs are VMWare Fusion. I keep and edit code on my Mac (the host). The Linux VMs mount my code folder using NFS.

emacs + tramp