>> Now, for my purposes, other alternatives just don't work. I don't know an easy way to have a Windows or OSX system to throw up a private virtual cloud over LXC on your notebook so you can work from a networkless Koh Rong beach.
I've been thinking about doing that, actually, so not knowing of any easy way was a bit of a fib. Very tempting, to say the least, but free software and all.
Run it in a Linux VM?