Answering on "Casey Crookston" and "Luther, Ron"wrote: > Casey Crookston asked about remoting into the cloud: > >>> (...) My idea: find a way to develop on the could. > (...) >>> Ideally, I would have access to my own virtual Windows desktop on which I would have all my development tools. > "Luther Ron": > How about a teeny tiny little cloud? > > I'm thinking more like a home network where you could put a largish drive in a cheap tower box, tuck it away in a 'safe' location at home, and load your software and development system on that box. Then use your laptop as kind of a thin client to remote into the hidden tower. > (...) "Renoir Boylanger" answer: personally did exactly the same for years (2007-2010). I had a development VM under Ubuntu Linux with all configurations and some scripts to automate the startup of my remote work X-Window applications and tunel innitialisation. I had a tower at home, hidden, that would do the same as my virtual desktop VM at work. So I could switch seamlessly to work from home using work's VPN tunnel. I wrote many articles (in french) about it: http://renoirboulanger.com/blog/2010/07/installer-une-machine-virtuelle-linux-roulant-dans-vmware-fusion-sous-mac-os-x/ http://renoirboulanger.com/blog/2009/09/une-vm-linux-qui-sert-au-developpement-php-5-3-avec-eclipse-partie-i/ http://renoirboulanger.com/blog/2009/09/une-vm-linux-qui-sert-au-developpement-php-5-3-avec-eclipse-partie-ii/ Hope this helps. For the french, sorry, I use my first language to document, hope google translate will help you guys RENOIR BOULANGER // devLABmtl.org/ ConFoo.ca/