Virtual Machines!                                 

                                             2024-04-17                                             

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                                             ▒▒▒▒ cough                                             

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                                            ▒▒▒▒ Hello.                                             

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                                   What IS A VIRTUAL MACHINE????                                    

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                                         So what are they?                                          

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                                     Imagine the following....                                      

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                     And yes, before you ask. It's possible to run nested VMs.                      

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        Its like making your computer pretend its gone a second, smaller computer inside it         

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        ▒▒▒▒ And for those of us that use the wrong OS, you can always run Windows VMs if           

                               you want to use anything with >3 users                               

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                                    ▒▒▒▒ Imagine the following:                                     

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                              [FIND SOME WAY TO PUT THE VIDEO IN HERE]                              

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        ▒▒▒▒ So, how do you stop small asian gymnasts from rooting around in your PC where          

                                          it shouldn't be?                                          

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                      ▒▒▒▒ Virtual Machines! It's like nailing this box shut!                       

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                               ▒▒▒▒ (Ignore the implications of that)                               

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                                      So when you do this....                                       

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                       You can just kill that sandbox, and spin up a new one!                       

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        ▒▒▒▒ For today, we'll be using VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)       

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                          ▒▒▒▒ Ignore the somewhat-ancient looking layout                           

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            ▒▒▒▒ Download the installer for your OS, get it, run it, you know the drill.            

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                            ▒▒▒▒ Run the program, you'll get this screen                            

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        ▒▒▒▒ For today, we'll try out some new OSes. Go here (                                      

                      https://templeos.org/Downloads/) for TempleOS, or here (                      

        https://uwuntuos.site/downloads/) for UwUntu. We'll start out with TempleOS, because        

                                its lighter and quicker to download.                                

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         ▒▒▒▒ Download the .iso files, and put them in a folder that you can easily access.         

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                          ▒▒▒▒ Next, go back to the VirtualBox application                          

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        ▒▒▒▒ Try not to allocate your entire memory. That's generally considered a bad idea.        

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                                         ▒▒▒▒ Hit 'Finish'                                          

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                              ▒▒▒▒ And now, you've got the following!:                              

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                          ▒▒▒▒ Hit "Start", let your machine power up....                           

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        ▒▒▒▒ And from here, explore the OS! And if your PC is on fire, you've done something        

                                 wrong. Most of the time, at least.                                 

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