I use hyper-v on my work laptop, and SSH in to a debian VM to access my dev environment. At home, I run Linux on my laptop and use KVM/libvirt for the kind of

I use hyper-v on my work laptop, and SSH in to a debian VM to access my dev environment. At home, I run Linux on my laptop and use KVM/libvirt for the kind of stuff you're discussing (when docker won't do, that is). I recommend it.