Hi Everyone, relatively new to the Linux world. Recently found LQ and excited to join the crew. Recently became interested in Linux System Admin topics. I'm plan on starting off setting up a home storage/vm machine. If that all goes well I hope to use it as a proof of concept for the small business I work for. We have a very disorganized and ineffective storage/file sharing system and I hope to improve that. I will probably be posting here looking for helpful resources and with a questions I'll inevitably run into along the way.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forums! Glad to see you're going about things in a good way, such as staging them before swapping over.

Greetings MahnaMahna.

Hello and welcome to the forum

Arrr Matey!!

There are many sources for pre-built VM's.

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/

https://virtualboxes.org/images/

Working with VM's for test beds and for working environments are a good choice in some cases. Just remember that one "Oh heck" wipes out 100 Attaboy's.