I am working on a project, where my code/db reside on a local VM (Ubuntu server) sitting on my windows machine.
My workflow is the currently:
1. Write code on desktop
2. Push changes to GIT
3. Go to VM and pull git changes
4. Test code on VM<p>I understand there are tools to improve this workflow (Vagrant+Puppet), but I am curious to hear what other dev environments/workflows look like or work for others.
Try <i>rsync</i> you could bypass 2 and 3. Basically, every change you made on your desktop can be automatically synced with the VM.<p>Alternatively, you can code directly on the VM and use an editor that lets you do remote editing (vim, emacs, sublime text ...).
Expandrive also works ok and its easy to setup, but IIRC what worked better for me in the same setup (Windows host + Ubuntu VM) was the old solution that I was avoiding all the time: Samba.