setting up a VM to practice re-installing the OS

[Eric Demer]

(I am the person who asked about setting up
encryption on my  Ubuntu 20.02.4 LTS  laptop.)

I normally would not care about encrypting the disk,
as opposed to _specific_ files on it, but my job requires the encryption.

I have now backed up my home folder.
To practice re-installing the OS, I had been trying to set up
a VM using  https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu ,
since that is what I saw suggested at the sites I was seeing online.


However,

the github page and the readme for quickemu seems to suggest that quickemu
_comes with_ some  iso s ,  but I'm not seeing any when I look through it
and
when I downloaded  Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS amd64  and tried to adjust the paths, I get
"A regular file was expected by the 'file' driver, but something else was given" .
and
I now see that 2 or 3 of you are suggesting VirtualBox

.


I just downloaded virtual box from the  Ubuntu 19.10 / 20.04 / 20.10 / 21.04  link
at  https://www.vitualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads ,  but when I try to start it,
I just get an otherwise-blank window with a spinning blue loading icon.

any ideas for troubleshooting the Quickemu or VirtualBox issue?



Thankyou,
Eric Demer
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