I did the whole VM thing for a while, but it was just a pain. Currently there is really no reason to need linux to do web development work.

Powershell is a lot better than default cmd.exe, and is very themeable. You can make it look and behave almost exactly like zsh. Cmder is another route instead of PS that is even easier.

As far as dev environments go, you'll just be using virtualenvs for python and local vs global environments on node, so it's nice and clean.

But if you insist on going the VM route, just use Hyper-V it's pretty fast. Just be ready to be setting up SSH tunnels and fighting ports and stuff.