Guidance on running an emulator to test submission on Windows

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Briefly discussed in Pilot 3

RConsortium/submissions-pilot3-adam#148

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Here's a high-level overview as source for a dedicated page in the site:

• Create virtual machine with the quickemu project.if your host OS is Linux or MacOS. For Windows, the easiest approach is likely Virtualbox
• Map at least one directory from the host OS to be shared to the virtual machine for transferring submission files. Both Quickemu and Virtualbox support this feature.
• Create snapshots for each major stage of the virtual machine development:
  • Fresh installation of Windows
  • Fresh installation of R and RStudio (configured with Rtools if necessary)
  • (Optional) if the virtual machine requires Docker, install Wndows Subsytem for Linux (version 2) and install Docker Desktop
• Manually execute steps of the pilot's ADRG instructions to replicate the reviewer's setup process.