Take a machine with Linux preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Yeah, of course.

Take a machine with Windows preinstalled. Will it run Linux without problems? Check the list.

Configure port forwarding for the VM.

Summit. It feels the most like RiF.

In that case gpaste (if you use Gnome). Before that parcellite was my preference, but around the transition to Wayland things broke for me.

Selection buffer.

Unless you mean clipboard manager, in which case it’ll depend on your desktop environment.