Looked at another virtualization technique because Virtualbox seems to be falling by the wayside. Went through process to install libvertd virtualization [key terms are KVM,QEMU]. Wow why can’t everything be explained in 1 place? It’s as if everyone trying to explain the process deliberately leaves stuff out in order to make their selfs look smarter. For example near the end where I almost got a VM up I get an error such as “error connecting to virtual console. error opening spice console” then when you google that you get something like “I can’t connect to spice” NOT “What the Hell is spice” I’ve been using Linux over 20 years and I never heard of spice. If the error said “error connecting to virtual console. error opening [VNC or RDP] console” I would have had an idea of what that was. Long story short I changed the default when creating the VM from spice to VNC…and it worked! Why is spice a default. I’ve worked with remote graphical desktop sharing systems before and NEVER heard of spice but see VNC or RDP all the time.
Finally, got a Solus ISO installed in a VM.