On Sunday, 13. Nov 2016, 22:21:33 +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > 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.
I will consider this if I have to do with PowerShell for a longer time. Thanks for the hint! Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
