What Is a Virtual Machine and Is It Worth Using ? Lets Attempt To Find Out !

Have you ever wanted to use a different operating system other than what you have installed, but didn't want to face all the risks that may be included with installing a new one. This is where a virtual machine may come in handy .
Think of a virtual machine as running a different OS within the one you currently have. There are alot of benefits to doing this , including just closing and deleting it if you aren't satisfied with the OS you installed.
Today I attempt to Install Ubuntu 24.04 as a VM , and see if it has any purpose as using it as a spare to your native OS as well as discussing some of the main limitations.
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[@fatchobok0]

A few random tidbits:
- Yes, developers do use VMs sometimes to test code in different environments, but containers are more common nowadays. Why install a whole OS when you just need to test your app on different versions of Java without borking your setup, for example.
- Your apt was locked because you were running updates, so it would not let you install from terminal. Gotta refamiliarize yourself with that terminal, bud. "sudo make me a sandwich"
- Dual-booting in this era is kinda dead, unless your duals are all Linux. Windows and other installs can tend to be a bit parasitic about boot loaders, and secure boot tends to be a pain with proper signing to even get to a Linux bootloader.
- Hypervisors do allow PCIe/GPU passthrough. On Windows, Hyper-V would've worked better for that. Most type 1 hypervisors allow for pretty much anything with some tinkering, but it's type 2 hypervisors like the one you are using that has some limitations.
- To end with a fun tidbit: People have run Mac on virtualbox. There's probably an image bumping around the Internet somewhere. I'm more familiar with people running Android on virtualbox though, which images are definitely widely available for.
It's somewhat a meme, but I suggest to people to learn to install Arch when learning Linux. Really great documentation and wiki really helps people grasp how Linux ticks.

[@doubleg392]

Good advice. My original video was actually going to be installing Android however either I couldnt get the image to boot or it was extremely slow using the android x86 images. I may do some further research with that as well as with installing Mac just to see if I can get them running