Create a sharable debugging and testing environment for Ethereum

[zah]

We can create a Vagrant recipe that simplifies the complex setup required for testing Nimbus against other Ethereum clients.

Such a VM would provide a GUI environment where all kind of debugging and system monitoring tools are pre-installed (e.g. a pre-configured copy of VS Code with tools for debugging Parity, Geth and py-evm, tools such as Wireshark with additional Ethereum-related dissectors and so on).

Over time, the shared effort to improve and document the capabilities of this environment is expected to pay out in increased productivity of the entire team.

[arnetheduck]

https://github.com/ethereum/hive is the official upstream project for these kinds of setup - can we contribute there instead?

[zah]

It seems to me that Hive could be a valuable addition to the environment I'm describing, but the relation is that the environment contains Hive and other debugging tools instead of the other way around.

Hive is a project with a very specific and a bit more narrow goal. We should definitely contribute Nimbus support for it though.