Slashcode VM for development work
This is a VM that is designed to run on VirtualBox. Information and downloads of VirtualBox are available here: https://www.virtualbox.org.
Once you get the VM downloaded and the VirtualBox up and ruining, you will want to do a File:Import Appliance in VirtualBox. This will unpack the VM into you environment. Start up the VM and log in with the username and password of slash.
More information on the VM can be found at http://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/DevelopmentVMHowto.
The latest version of the VM can be downloaded here: http://vm.soylentnews.org/Slashdev_14.10.ova.