Add a Vagrantfile

.vagrantconfig.yml

+configs:
+    dev:
+        'qt_deps_tarball': '/vagrant/Qt5.5.1-linux.tar.bz2'
+        'qt_deps_unpack_parent_dir': '/tmp'
+
+        'qt_deps_unpack_dir': '/tmp/Qt'
+        'qt_deps_bin_unpack_dir': '/tmp/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/bin'
+        'qt_deps_lib_unpack_dir': '/tmp/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/lib'
+        'qt_deps_plugins_unpack_dir': '/tmp/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/plugins'
+        'qt_deps_qml_unpack_dir': '/tmp/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/qml'
+
+        'qt_deps_dir': '/vagrant/shadow-build/release/Qt'
+        'qt_deps_bin_dir': '/vagrant/shadow-build/release/Qt/bin'
+        'qt_deps_lib_dir': '/vagrant/shadow-build/release/Qt/libs'
+        'qt_deps_plugins_dir': '/vagrant/shadow-build/release/Qt/plugins'
+        'qt_deps_qml_dir': '/vagrant/shadow-build/release/Qt/qml'
+
+        'spec': 'linux-g++-64'
+        'shadow_build_dir': '/vagrant/shadow-build'
+        'pro': '/vagrant/qgroundcontrol.pro'
+        'deps_url': 'https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/qgroundcontrol/dependencies'

Vagrantfile

+# -*- mode: ruby -*-
+# vi: set ft=ruby :
+
+require 'yaml'
+
+current_dir    = File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__))
+configfile        = YAML.load_file("#{current_dir}/.vagrantconfig.yml")
+yaml_config = configfile['configs']['dev']
+
+Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
+  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
+  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
+    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "4096"]
+    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "1"]
+  end
+
+  # the "dev configuration puts the build products and a suitable
+  # environment into the /vagrant directory.  This allows you to run
+  # qgroundcontrol on the host machine with:
+  # "cd shadow-build/release; ../../deploy/qgroundcontrol-start.sh"
+
+  $config_shell = <<-'SHELL'
+     sudo apt-get update -y
+     sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
+     sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential
+     sudo apt-get install -y espeak libespeak-dev libudev-dev libsdl1.2-dev
+     sudo apt-get install -y doxygen 
+     sudo apt-get install -y gstreamer1.0* libgstreamer1.0*
+
+     # taken from travis.yml
+     su - vagrant -c 'wget --continue -q %{deps_url}/%{qt_deps_tarball}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'rm -rf %{qt_deps_unpack_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'mkdir -p %{qt_deps_unpack_parent_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'tar jxf "%{qt_deps_tarball}" -C  %{qt_deps_unpack_parent_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'rm -rf %{shadow_build_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'mkdir -p %{shadow_build_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c "cd %{shadow_build_dir}; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%{qt_deps_lib_unpack_dir} PATH=%{qt_deps_bin_unpack_dir}:\$PATH qmake -r %{pro} -spec %{spec}"
+     su - vagrant -c "cd %{shadow_build_dir}; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%{qt_deps_lib_unpack_dir} PATH=%{qt_deps_bin_unpack_dir}:\$PATH make -j4"
+
+     su - vagrant -c 'mkdir -p %{qt_deps_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'cp -a %{qt_deps_bin_unpack_dir} %{qt_deps_bin_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'cp -a %{qt_deps_lib_unpack_dir} %{qt_deps_lib_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'cp -a %{qt_deps_plugins_unpack_dir} %{qt_deps_plugins_dir}'
+     su - vagrant -c 'cp -a %{qt_deps_qml_unpack_dir} %{qt_deps_qml_dir}'
+
+   SHELL
+
+  config.vm.provision "dev", type: "shell", inline: $config_shell  % {
+    :shadow_build_dir => yaml_config['shadow_build_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_tarball => yaml_config['qt_deps_tarball'],
+    :pro => yaml_config['pro'],
+    :spec => yaml_config['spec'],
+    :deps_url => yaml_config['deps_url'],
+
+    :qt_deps_unpack_parent_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_unpack_parent_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_unpack_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_unpack_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_bin_unpack_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_bin_unpack_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_lib_unpack_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_lib_unpack_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_plugins_unpack_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_plugins_unpack_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_qml_unpack_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_qml_unpack_dir'],
+
+    :qt_deps_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_bin_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_bin_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_lib_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_lib_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_plugins_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_plugins_dir'],
+    :qt_deps_qml_dir => yaml_config['qt_deps_qml_dir'],
+  }
+
+
+end