# Can Trellis be used with LocalWP?

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/can-trellis-be-used-with-localwp/24723
**Category:** trellis
**Created:** 2023-02-04T16:26:03Z
**Posts:** 3
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## Post 2 by @swalkinshaw — 2023-02-04T21:14:21Z

Trellis is designed to provision (setup) a dedicated server so I wouldn’t recommend running it on your local machine. However, you can point Trellis at _any_ kind of Ubuntu machine. Whether that’s a VM in VirtualBox via Vagrant (or another Vagrant provider), a VM using Qemu, or an LXD based container for example.

See [LXC/LXD as an alternative to Virtualbox for local development](https://discourse.roots.io/t/lxc-lxd-as-an-alternative-to-virtualbox-for-local-development/5149) for an example of that.

No guarantees on timing, but trellis-cli is getting local development built-in soon-ish and it will used LXD for Linux/Ubuntu hosts.

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