Advice for running Linux Virtual Machine on Windows

Question

I have a python application that I am currently operating in Windows (because I need to be able to send TCP commands to a 3rd party Windows application which is running on the same machine). However, I want to be able to use libgphoto2, which generally only runs on Linux machines. Is it possible to set up a virtual machine and run everything from a single computer? My Python scripts can currently be run from either Linux or Windows. An easy way to do this would be to have one computer with Windows which I control over TCP from a secondary computer running Linux...but this means that I will need 2 computers.

Any advice?

Answer 1

Light solutions, just a Linux compatibility layer:

• latest Windows has native Linux support
• for older Windows versions, cygwin
• or mingw

If it doesn't work, you can resort to a real virtualization, eg VirtualBox.

Answer 2

Try VM Player.

Where you can setup linux over windows and communicate between virtual linux and windows host.

VM Player