CouchDB in a VirtualBox
Good for testing (but not the performance):
installing couchdb on ubuntu is a cinch: sudo apt-get install couchdb
As Stephan Schimdt posted today on Twitter:
Hurray for someone telling the truth: “Like most datastores, Riak will run best when not virtualized.” - V is NOT magically adding capacity
via: http://jedschneider.posterous.com/setting-up-virtualbox-and-couchdb-for-localiz