Let me know if that works. What Pi are you using?
I am going the VM route with windows 10. Haven’t decided on my Synology Active Backup for Business to back up the VM or connect to my NAS through VM iscsi and then create a snapshot version of the LUN on the NAS. I like to use a laptop for portability and the LUN doesn’t fit very well into that. I do have a OMG plan if I can pull it off. Use my Synology VPN plus on my router and VPN into my home network and connect to the LUN remotely since the NAS will think I am within the LAN. 
I am looking at a Lenovo X1 17" carbon with 64gb ram and I7- 8th gen processor for my base Linux machine. This should have enough horsepower to run what I need then I will have my old Surface pro 4 as backup incase something bad happens.