A virtual machine is definitely the way to go. If you want, you can boot it, then use PuTTY (for shells) and Samba mounts (for disk access) and treat it like yo

A virtual machine is definitely the way to go. If you want, you can boot it, then use PuTTY (for shells) and Samba mounts (for disk access) and treat it like you'd treat any other remote machine. Quite handy as devops training with your Rails practice.