There is a virtual machine program for Linux called qemu which allows you to,create a lot of vms with all different kinds of Linux distros without the need to download, and create .iso’s and install- been trying it lately, and it’s really fast and quite nice, although I couldn’t get mac os or windows to work on it, but the Linux distros have worked great so far. Tried PopOs, didn’t really like it-gonna try a few more soon. Kinda neat to be able to have a bunch to check out-
Thanks for that link- looks pretty neat-
And as I always rudely interject on any VM-related thread... VMware Workstation Pro is now free to use (non-commercial). I continue to be impressed how refined and polished it is ... Its “repair” and “reinstall tools” features are terrific. Self-repaired itself after somehow all its drivers got zapped out of my /dev the other day and the VM (of course) wouldn’t start (this might have been the result of btrfs restoring one of those snapshots, now that I think of it). 30 seconds later was ready to boot the Windows 10 VM. Can also insert new tool versions INTO the VM at start-up.