setting up a VM to practice re-installing the OS

[R C]

I work at a place that has requirements like that, told them that 
doesn't work for what I do and got an exception.

(not using Ubuntu for that one though).


On 5/21/21 4:40 PM, Eric Demer via ubuntu-users wrote:
> (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 
> <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 
> <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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