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.
I haven’t purchased the VPN yet, and I’ve only downloaded and ran the qbittorrent setup file. (then that window appeared (image above). The VM should be set up correctly (all I had to do is just enable the feature - Windows Sandbox).
Hmm I think your issue is specific to Windows Sandbox. I’ve only ever used full VM software (Microsoft Hyper-V, VirtualBox, etc.).
Never touched Windows Sandbox but it sounds like a sort of hybrid VM/Container thing… I could be wrong :) hopefully someone else knows more about using that or maybe you’ll need to post in another community to ask about it.
EDIT: Looking into it a bit more, Windows Sandbox isn’t actually a VM. So you’re really asking if you can run multiple apps (VPN+torrent client+whatever) inside a sandbox app like Windows Sandbox…I don’t think that’s how sandbox apps work, they usually are for sandboxing a single app, so you may need to experiment and figure it out. Everyone looking at your post is thinking you’re asking about VMs, not sandboxes :P
e.g. see this https://superuser.com/a/1775271 answer
also https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-isolation/windows-sandbox/windows-sandbox-faq
Oh wow, I didn’t realize it isn’t a VM… Thank you for the in depth response.
Oh, you’re using Sandbox - yea, I could see certain checks failing as the app will be intentionally prevented from accessing certain things to be sandboxed.
Sandbox isn’t the same as a VM.
You can run VirtualBox, but it’s performance is notably less than VMware, and the latest version of VMware Workstation is free once again.
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/189-vmware-workstation-for-windows.html