On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > for a special job I need to do a piece of work in Microsofts > PowerShell, but I have no Windows machine running. I know > that there is a PowerShell for Linux because I have one > installed on a Ubuntu. Yet, I do not want to shut down my > Gentoo and boot Ubuntu every time when I have to try > something in PowerShell. I would like to install it on > Gentoo.
This is the perfect use case for running containers on your development machine. Just set up lxc/lxd/docker on your gentoo machine and start up an ubuntu container in any of the runtimes. Works flawlessly, and you don't have to reboot or run a heavyweight VM. Lxc/lxd are more suitable for long running containers, docker would be great for containers that you spin up and tear down whenever you need. Give it a try.
