MAMP / LAMP - native or virtual (Virtualbox / VMware)?

Question

What is your preferred development environment?

Native

• WAMP / MAMP / LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) for Windows / MacOS / Linux
• Working copy local, SVN / CVS on the server
• IDE / editor on the same system (Eclipse, Aptana, Zend ...)

Virtual / Native (Server in a virtual machine)

• LAMP on VirtualBox / VMware
• working copy in VM
• IDE / editor on the host, access to the virtual machine using Samba, FTP, SFTP (ultimately, mapping using tools such as WebDrive)

Virtual (VM)

• Complete VM development environment (server, tools, IDE)
• The host is used only for special tools that are not available in the OS running in VM

All have pros and cons.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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