I do PHP development every couple of years, a bit of maintenance on a website I have. Seems that every time I want to do that I have to get the whole system working again, or even worse install WAMP, an IDE, etc.
I'd quite like to run a virtual machine like VirtualBox, so it stays stable. The question is how can I get Windows onto there to do PHP development? Or I guess I could do Linux too, if someone can recommend an easy distro and method to get it all work. I'm reasonably familiar with Linux, and I've developed in it before, but I don't want to have to mess about with it too much, I just want to fix the code.
Key thing - I want to be able to use Eclipse with a debugger without spending more than an hour or two setting it all up. It can take a while usually.