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Just for curiosity: why do you need or want something like cmd.exe under a Linux distro?

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Re^4: [OT] Windows VMs under Linux for running Perl.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 20, 2016 at 10:18 UTC

    For an upcoming job I need a Linux environment to run the proprietary DB software that generates and stores the data I will be working on; but I infinitely prefer to do development under Windows.

    I've tried running Linux in VMs under Windows. It works, but the integration is clunky and the proprietary software comes as bunch of appliances that don't really play well in VMs.

    So the better solution is to do my development in a Windows VM hosted on Linux.

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