Hi Andrei,

Welcome to our list! Most of us devel on a Debian derivative, e.g. Debian testing, latest release of Ubuntu or Mint. Most of our runtime testing we do in interactive queues on various clusters.

We don't have a vagrant setup yet but in case you like docker, we have a nvidia-docker file under:
https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/issues/829

If you are an expert in vagrant, please don't hesitate to share you setup. I just did not find the time to check how well GPU support works with vagrant and if people are using it regularly. I know it exists but have not seen other scientists working with it yet.

Package wise we usually need a rather recent version of cuda, cmake and boost with a working mpi installation, see our install requirements for exact versions :
https://picongpu.readthedocs.io/en/dev/install/dependencies.html

An attractive and brand new alternative is also spack, which has working build receipts for all our dependencies :
https://github.com/LLNL/spack
https://spack.io

Are you just generally interested or developing with a specific lab/university? If you need any help to get started or have a specific development you are aiming for, feel free to open threads here or issues on github.

Again, welcome! :)

Cheers,
Axel