Sakai has recently switched over to using the MariaDB connector for MySQL databases, and a number of institutions are running MariaDB in production, so I thought I might as well change my dev machine over to MariaDB.
To ease the transition, I whipped up a Vagrant box so I could run this in a VM and spin it up whenever I needed it.
Clone this:
https://github.com/steveswinsburg/mariadb-vagrant
Run this: vagrant up
Done.