Computers: your setup and recovery note Fictional case; no installation or restore was observed. Owned Windows 11 x86-64 host; compatible hypervisor assumed. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop guest; new normal disk; no host sharing. NAT network mode; no port forwarding. Terminal belongs to the guest. Saved editor program; one running editor process, PID 81. Saved guest task.txt and unsaved editing data are separate. Snapshot clean: guest Documents/practice exists and is empty. Later: guest practice/temporary is created; a host receipt is saved; the guest viewer requests a note from a remote service. Use this case, or clearly separated observations from your own setup. Record: permission; host/guest identity; architecture and resources; saved files and running work; requester/responder; restore prediction; host and remote exclusions; next Ubuntu file-navigation task. Explain why another tool distribution can wait. Include a stop rule for unclear disk targets or permission. If using the fictional case, write installation and live restore deferred.