Does anyone know how to run qbittorrent and protonvpn in a VM? When I try to run the qbittorrent setup app I get this message (image below) and I don’t see anything mentioning a VM in the qbittorrent [dot] org forum.

I am new to torrenting, so I don’t really know what to do. I figured/assumed that torrenting/seeding in a VM might be safer as it is another layer deep, and that it may help keep traffic separate (inside the VM: I’d be using a vpn and torrenting, and outside the VM: I’d not be using a vpn and just regular internet surfing). Is this possible?

Thank you.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    No reason it shouldn’t work.

    Whats your VM software, what’s the host and (especially) the guest OS?

    I’ve seen this error with an app in Windows, while running it in an admin account, haha. No idea what these app devs are doing to cause these messages.

    Keep in mind under Linux, distros today often don’t setup the first user as root, but as a limited account (there’s a separate root account with it’s own password).

    • Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Windows and Win Sandbox

      I’ve seen this error with an app in Windows, while running it in an admin account, haha. No idea what these app devs are doing to cause these messages.

      Oh really? Was the admin account you are referring to outside or inside the VM?

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I don’t recall if it was in a VM or not, it doesn’t really matter. A VM is just a logical system, the OS runs the same as it would on bare hardware (for things like this).

        I suspect what I see in Windows is a result of devs designing for an prior version of Windows, and some system call returns differently enough in a newer version. The times I’ve seen it, the apps work fine, which makes me thing it’s a validation that fails.