• Download Oracle VirtualBox
• Download Ubuntu Server
• Setup new VM
• Bridge the network adapter to your internet connection
• Install openssh on the installation
• Install Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Git
  • Install PHP packages: php-apc,
• Set Nginx root to /srv/www
• Run `ifconfig` to get the VM's IP address
• Setup your hosts file for smf.dev
• Fork the SMF repo
• Clone the repo locally
• Download Workbench
• Connect workbench via SSH
• Create a smf schema
• git clone https://github.com/{username}/SMF2.1.git
• git remote add smf_dev https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1.git