Virtual Machines Thread How Do You Utilize Them -

[Disheveled Human]

Just tossing down a fun thread of what you do with virtual machines. I have a win 98 one where it uses win 98 themes and I play shit like chips adventure, duke nukem 3d ect. and sometimes I play solitaire. Really brings me back.

 

[RandomTwitterGuy]

I use them mostly to have clean environment's for testing things.

It is nice to have a Ubunto install ready to go with my basic stuff so when i add or try and dig into source code for random shit i don't fuck it op for my ohter projects.
So i made a image that have every thing i need and simulators and shit so when i evitable do something stupid it is easy to start over with limited time wasted.

Mostly work related.

 

[Basil II]

Hello Chris!

 

[Pee Cola]

Scambaiting.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

Hello Chris!
View attachment 1713997

>He doesn't make up names to use on his installs
Lmao luser moment

 

[AmpleApricots]

You can have clean Linux environments with chroots, don't necessarily need a VM, depending on what you test. Also WINE is really, really good at running old windows software, better than windows itself.

The only right answer in this thread is: To run TempleOS to communicate with Mr. God.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

"[X] says it's a trojan/virus, but..." -> VM -> "Oh. Let's see what it does to..."

A VM can be similar to an animal trapped by small and cruel boy. Other uses aside from playing Mengele with Linux distros is running warez with crappy viruses and trojans on old Windows versions.

 

[Disheveled Human]

>He doesn't make up names to use on his installs
Lmao luser moment

well to be fair it is just a pic i found on google to use as a visual example.

 

[Slav Power]

Playing around with old Windows versions, running legacy Windows programs, playing around with Linux distros, and very rarely running shady programs. I use VMware Workstation and VirtualBox.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Playing around with old Windows versions, running legacy Windows programs, playing around with Linux distros, and very rarely running shady programs. I use VMware Workstation and VirtualBox.

Am I just unfortunate or is VirtualBox slow as shit compared to VMware?

 

[Slav Power]

Am I just unfortunate or is VirtualBox slow as shit compared to VMware?

I feel like VirtualBox runs Linux just as bad as VMware on my machine.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I use Virtual PC on my Mac toaster to run Win98 to run old PC stuff. I also like using DOSBox to run old DOS stuff.

 

[Least Concern]

As a Mac-using web dev, I mostly use them to run Windows to diagnose issues with sites that are likely to be Windows-specific. Even after the death of IE/Trident, it's still useful from time to time. For example, Mac scrollbars work quite differently than Windows ones and there are cases where I've done something dumb to make an unnecessary scroll bar visible on Windows but I can't replicate it on my Mac.

Less commonly I will use them to do some experimentation with POSIX stuff that I don't want to do on one of my live servers.

 

[WinnieTheJew]

My preferred hypervisor is QEMU on Linux. I keep a stock Windows 10 Pro VM just for financial stuff so that my bank's website doesn't have a shitfit because I logged in from the illegal evil hacker OS known as Ubuntu. QEMU can also emulate other architectures so I have a lot of fun with running Solaris 10 for SPARC and other systems.

 

[ditto]

WSL2 for all the Linux goodness that Windows sucks at.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

I have a PCem that runs Windows 3.11 for workgroups for dos gaming (dosbox can't get anything right) and another that runs Windows 98SE to run the god-tier version of Office and play games that are impossible to run on newer machines, I'm looking at you civilization 3.

They are both set up with virtual modems to connect to a local workgroup because otherwise moving documents back and forth from the involves endless hours of making ISOs.

 

[3119967d0c]

I keep a stock Windows 10 Pro VM just for financial stuff so that my bank's website doesn't have a shitfit because I logged in from the illegal evil hacker OS known as Ubuntu.

Changing the user-agent isn't enough? That's crazy, I guess they might be using one of those dodgy setups where they exploit WebRTC to scan your local network, but I'm not sure how that would differentiate how your base OS differs from the VM.

 

[WinnieTheJew]

Changing the user-agent isn't enough? That's crazy, I guess they might be using one of those dodgy setups where they exploit WebRTC to scan your local network, but I'm not sure how that would differentiate how your base OS differs from the VM.

I couldn't tell you why because I'm just an end user and didn't dig into it. Modifying the useragent doesn't work, I did try that. Whatever method they use doesn't detect VMs for now. They also force you to use Chrome or Safari or the mobile app. Chromium and Firefox show a popup for it even on Windows.