I have always used Homestead but I'm getting a bit tired of how slow it is. I'm tempted to just create an Ubuntu VM with Parallels and use that as my dev environment.
What do you use to serve?
I have 11 projects on my current homestead box using various services like redis. I don't encounter any "slowness," except for the overhead that laravel debugbar introduces that I use on every project, which is quite a bit. Are you using any packages like that which are gathering extra data, running explain on queries, etc?
I use WAMP for PHP and MySQL and then in my computers document folder is where I create my projects and just run the project in my browser using php artisan serve and 127.0.0.1:8000 I'm sure everyone has there own way though.
No, not at all. But hitting refresh on a page just takes longer than it should. When working on the front-end, it gets a bit tedious.
Yeah, all VM's will suffer that problem just by their nature. I prefer that to polluting my OS with all I need to maintain the various projects I manage though (various php versions, mysql versions, etc.)
I don't think you'll gain much by using a different VM. It's still a VM. If you just work on one project at a time, I'd just use the native OS with a real webserver, etc. Under the hood, homestead is an ubuntu VM.
You didn't mention your host OS....are you Mac/Windows? How much ram do you have?
@CRONIX - Ah, I'm a Mac guy and I have 16GB of Ram. I did think about that but I just figured something like Parallels would be faster than VirtualBox.
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