VPN on virtual machine

[Jim]

Today I tried one last time before giving up.  I installed kubuntu 14.04 
on a virtual machine.  I configured the vpn and connected.  Then I 
launched ktorrent and opened the ubuntu 18.04 torrent.  It immediately 
connected to 119 seeders out of 3052. Download speeds varied between 
2.75 and 4 MBps.  Using virtualbox's shared folders option, I've mounted 
the folder where I have files downloaded to on the host machine in the 
guest.  So anything Ktorrent saves, it saves on the host.  Thanks 
Michael Butash for the idea of using a virtual machine to handle bittorrent.

I have no idea what I did that made it work this time, but I won't 
complain.  Thanks to all for your input.