So you only have one computer (Lets assume running Windows) that you’d like to do virtualization stuff as well without screwing with Windows or your files. Lucky you, I actually made a video on doing this with an application called Virtual Box. Within the video I go over rather quickly how to spawn an instance of Ubuntu and how to map a usb device to said virtual machine. This can be useful if you’re having issues with your local machine and other hardware or is great as a test environment that could keep harmful activities off of your host machine.