I actually wrote a tutorial on this: https://jtreminio.com/2012/07/setting-up-a-debian-vm-step-by-step https://jtreminio.com/2012/07/setting-up-a-debian-vm-step

I actually wrote a tutorial on this: https://jtreminio.com/2012/07/setting-up-a-debian-vm-step-by-step https://jtreminio.com/2012/07/setting-up-a-debian-vm-step-by... I'll be re-doing it to use apt-get for everything, but for now PHP is compiled. I use samba to share files from the VM to my network, and Windows mounts the share as a local drive.