PyCharm in Windows7 + Virtualbox Ubuntu - guide to a common setup?

I'm trying to just get started with a simple django project. I run PyCharm in Windows, and deploy my code to an Ubuntu virtualbox with which I've shared my local projects folder. I know this is not an uncommon setup, but I cannot seem to find any sort of "official" guide, and although I've got a remote interpreter set up, I still don't seem to have things "right" yet.

• Settings | Python Interpreters: I've created an entry here, and configured it to use the python executable in my virtualen (~/ve/test_ve/bin/python), and I copied the pycharm helpers to ~/pycharmhelpers. Tested the connection, it's all good. In the packages tab, it lists both Django & MySQL-python (which I installed via pip install earlier)
  
• Settings | Django Support: I've got the "Enable..." checkboix ticked, he project root is set to the Windows path of my project root, the folder which contains manage.py & settings.py, and those are both set directly beneath.
  
• Console | Python console: the only thing set here is the python interpreter, the other options are all blank. (path mappings - should i set that?)
  
• Settings | Django Console: same as for the python console.

And so where I'm at currently is that I can run (shift+10) my project, and it starts the server on the ubuntu box, and loads it up in my browser - all fine. However, under the "Tools" menu, things get a bit more muddled. First off, the options for "Django Console" and "Run manage.py task" are both greyed-out/unavailable. I can run the Python console, and it does indeed open up a session with the remote interpreter I've configured for this project... but in the interpreter, it first runs  "sys.path.extend(['L:\\djangotest']), which is not appropriate of course. Nonetheless, it is running python on the remote box.

So aside from not being able to run tasks, in the code editor I get a lot of errors/underlined text complaining about "Unresolved reference", about literally every single thing in the script.

So perhaps I have a fundamental expectation wrong: I was hoping not to install python on my Windows 7 machine, where I'm actually running PyCharm - I figured it'd be enough to just have it on my local development server, which is where the code will be running. Is that wrong? Also, is there a walk-through for us Windows + Virtualbox users? Thanks in advance.