I've been long accustomed to running Windows on my Laptop while been logged in to a Fedora Server in our office via Putty / XWin / SAMBA to seamless run Linux commands on data.
For my next assignment I'm often out in the field with spotty internet connectivity / laggy high latency networks so doing work on the remote Linux server back in our office is proving difficult.
Is there a good way to have the Linux server also running locally on my laptop & thus do a ssh from Windows merely to a local machine instance?
Some ideas:
I know how to install multi-boot but that needs booting from one OS to another & that's not what suits my Workflow. I need to simultaneously work on both systems.
I had tried running Fedora on VirtualBox within Windows but that experience wasn't great. Though that was a WinXP era machine and 5+ years ago so maybe things have improved? Have they?
PS. My current laptop is a Dell Inspiron with 4 GB RAM with a 2127U processor. It would be ideal if the solution could run on this. The specs. seem to say it does have virtualization support.