I need to set up a remote development environment to be used by multiple employees of a company. The goal is to let employees work in their prefered environment. As users might need to have root access, I might go with one vm per user. That would effectively move the desktop system of the user to the 'cloud', which would be access through x2go. That way every dev can use the editor (s)he wants, compile on its vm, install packages, etc...