'Name' your VM (I chose 'q4os-tde'), change 'Type' to be 'Linux' and 'Version' to 'Debian (64-bit)' Ħ. Click the 'New' toolbar button to create a new virtual machine (VM) ĥ. After installation finishes, press Alt+F2, type 'virtualbox' and Enter Ĥ. Open terminal and do '$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox' ģ.

Boot the Mint liveCD from the USB drive - tutorial on how to create it linked above and bear in mind that, as you are running a liveCD with no persistence, everything is volatile and will vanish upon rebooting, unless you take care to save it to external storage Ģ. VirtualBox from the official Mint repositoryġ.

Ventoy v1.0.24 installed as bootloader Lenovo T460s with Kingstom NVMe with BIOS set to legacy mode This setup might be suitable to few but is ideal for my purpose of not messing up with other OSes while allowing for freely testing with whatever wild experiences I may come up - in case something goes seriously wrong (it did, already) and having kept the original untouched volume, reverting to a working system is a simple as copying back the VHD, overwriting the faulty one.Ī) I used a Mint liveCD ISO because I am used to working with it and know everything just works, but nothing prevents you from using Q4OS liveCD itself ī) This process is somewhat involved as it requires a lot of small steps but overall it is fairly easy and simple, as it's nothing more than an adaptation of the official procedure (as explained at ) andĬ) I'm using an old version of Ventoy as the main bootloader because when setup in internal storage it doesn't throw any weird errors, which is something that changed in more recent versions. Prompted by a message about dual booting elsewhere in the forum, I decided to share my recent recipe for setting up Q4OS in a virtual hard disk, which is nothing more than a file in your drive.

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