Hi:
If you have issues downloading SAS University Edition in a Virtual Machine, your other option is to get an independent learner's account under SAS OnDemand for Academics. You will not need to download anything to get an account. All you'll need to do is sign on with your Profile, and then follow these instructions for independent learner:
https://support.sas.com/en/software/ondemand-for-academics-support.html .
After that, you'd get your access to the SAS OnDemand server from a web browser connected to our cloud server.
I am not sure what "technical issues" you've run into. But, if you have exceeded the number of downloads due to a bad connection, you can write to SASAnalyticsU@sas.com .
Hope this helps,
Cynthia