Is there a Virtual Machine or Emulator onto which I can install my RPi2 images in a Windows environment, customize, edit and setup the OS and packages, then dump the image onto an SD card?
Why not just use an actual RPi? Anyways, QEMU can do it… http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/
Reasonable question!
• My monitors don’t have HDMI
• The TV is about 12" to far from my desk
• My Linux skillz aren’t what they should be, so I don’t have remote graphical
X, RDP or VNC running yet.
• I like the idea of being able to tweak things and setup things from my desk, save system states on the fly, and then load it on the Pi
Thanks. I’ll try QEMU
Do your monitors have DVI? Because if they do, just pick up a DVI to HDMI cable, and away you go. DVI and HDMI are electrically identical, so the converter cable is just a pass through.
It’s more about wanting to create and tweak the images using a desktop setup. I like to try something, confirm it works, then save my work before making the next edits…if I can work on an emulated image, then I can save as I go and then not have to worry about trying to fix something when I break it…kinda like last weekend when I accidentally removed pi from the sodoers file 
I noticed QEMU is Linux…I don’t see an officially supported Windows version…any suggestions?
I’ve used MinGW in the past for some virtual stuff in windows. http://www.mingw.org/
This is a serious suggestion, not just a bash at Windows. If you’re trying to get into Linux, set up a computer as a dual-boot machine. Preferably an old laptop, but you can dual-boot nearly anything. Having a full Linux environment comes in very handy for a lot of things, including playing with Pi images / filesystems. And who knows, you may grow to like Linux enough to make it your primary desktop OS. I know that’s what happened for me.
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I’ll bash Windoze…anytime! Been totally on 'Nix since 2006. 