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.

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    2 days ago

    It’s entirely possible and you do it the same way you do on bare metal. However if you are just trying to stop your ISP from seeing that you are pirating then using a VM won’t achieve anything. If you’re worried about downloading malware or something then yes that’s a good idea.

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      2 days ago

      I’m not sure what you mean by bare metal. Yeah mostly the avoiding malware, but I think I can just download it via torrent and VPN > upload to my email > open the VM > download from email > check with virustotal > try running the exe if it seems normal

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        2 days ago

        Bare metal = not in a VM

        Why are you uploading to email? Can’t you just download the torrent in the VM and check it in virustotal there?

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          1 day ago

          I meant that if I was unable to figure out a solution, at least I would be able to transfer it to a VM (which apparently Windows Sandbox isnt really)