install vagrant sudo gem install vagrant or http://downloads.vagrantup.com/tags/v1.0.0.rc2 cd databox vagrant up vagrant ssh # this will ssh into the guest box, and the next commands will be run on the guest box cd /vagrant/sample node.io hello.js node.io reddit.js To apply changes to the vm (after running git fetch and merge) vagrant reload To destroy the box vagrant destroy Run examples in /vagrant/sample