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.

  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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