Re: [OT] Windows VMs under Linux for running Perl.

On Windows, berrybrew and for Linux perlbrew for the Perl infrastructure, and for a *very* capable IDE, intelliJ with the spectacularly awesome Camelcade Perl Plugin.

The plugins can be installed within the IDE itself easily. I'd recommend the Vim plugin as well, but I realize that not all people use the same editor.

Note that the IDE configuration I recommended works seamlessly on both Linux/Unix and Windows, and it's trivial to save your configuration on one platform, and import it on the other.

Once you have a decent setup, the platform is almost irrelevant (less some specific distributions, but I digress), so all of this will work on nearly all versions of Windows as well as most versions Linux/Unix.

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Re^2: [OT] Windows VMs under Linux for running Perl. by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 18, 2016 at 06:50 UTC
Sorry, but I think you missed the purpose of my question. I'm quite happy with my development environment on windows. What I'm looking for is first hand knowledge and guidance of how to set up a Windows VM under Linux such that I can use the Windows environment on that system essentially as if it was the native host of that system. I've used a couple of flavors of Linux, running in a couple of different types of VM hosted on Windows; and whilst they're pretty good, I've always found them a little clunky. As I am now looking to set things up the other way, I'm hoping someone might be able to narrow the search space for which VM running on which version of Linux is most l;ikely to give a usable Windows environment with a few quirks and annoyances as possible. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The enemy of (IT) success is complexity. In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]

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Re^2: [OT] Windows VMs under Linux for running Perl.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 18, 2016 at 06:50 UTC

Sorry, but I think you missed the purpose of my question. I'm quite happy with my development environment on windows. What I'm looking for is first hand knowledge and guidance of how to set up a Windows VM under Linux such that I can use the Windows environment on that system essentially as if it was the native host of that system.

I've used a couple of flavors of Linux, running in a couple of different types of VM hosted on Windows; and whilst they're pretty good, I've always found them a little clunky.

As I am now looking to set things up the other way, I'm hoping someone might be able to narrow the search space for which VM running on which version of Linux is most l;ikely to give a usable Windows environment with a few quirks and annoyances as possible.

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The enemy of (IT) success is complexity.

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

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