diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0b88f932d..81ec4af0d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 env
-*.pyc
\ No newline at end of file
+*.pyc
+.vagrant
+.#*
+local_settings.py
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a28fa4c13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# -*- mode: ruby -*-
+# vi: set ft=ruby :
+
+Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
+
+  # Every Vagrant virtual environment requires a box to build off of.
+  config.vm.box = "precise32"
+  config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box"
+
+  config.vm.forward_port 80, 6060
+
+  config.vm.share_folder "share", "/usr/local/otm", ".", :create => true, :owner => "otm"
+
+  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "scripts/bootstrap.sh"
+
+  config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024]
+end
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7d83eb0b1..0b458c84a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ https://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.5c1/tarball/
 argparse==1.2.1
 gunicorn==0.17.2
 wsgiref==0.1.2
+south
+psycopg2
+
diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap.sh b/scripts/bootstrap.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aa7a0d7d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bootstrap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+apt-get install -y debconf
+update-locale LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
+dpkg-reconfigure locales
+
+# Create otm user
+if [ -z "$(getent passwd otm)" ];
+then
+    useradd -m -k /home/vagrant -s /bin/bash otm
+    echo "otm ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/80-allow-otm-sudo
+    chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/80-allow-otm-sudo
+fi