What do you use Virtual Machines for user?

managing remote servers

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pfSense and a VM running Asterisk

At work we run XP VMs for legacy software in this absolute piece of shit.

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>development environments
>Windows

that's about it

Keygen

unbound, pihole, aptmirror, ansible, torrenting, plex, nextcloud, onlyoffice, graylog, jitsi, wiki, pxeboot

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I would never have thought of this. Is it really safe though?

My boss suggested it to me, I really needed a key once, I tried it and everything was cool after a virus scan so probs yeah

Oh, sorry. I'm retarded. I was thinking of things like RSA keygen.

This

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I wish I had bandwidth to spare for this.

On Linux I use QEMU with AQEMU as the GUI frontend. These programs make it pretty simple to spin up VMs and I get really good performance. Emulating the native architecture on a QEMU guest is faster than VirtualBox, at least for Windows and Linux on Intel platforms. It's also fairly easy to a GPU pass through on desktops using QEMU, and you let your host OS run on a couple GB of RAM and the iGPU. I use Fedora 27 as the host OS on my desktop and I can run OS X Sierra, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 10 LTSB, Kubuntu, RHEL, and Debian as guests.

QEMU is also cross platform, and I often use it on my PowerMac G5 to run OS X Tiger and various Linux and BSD PowerPC ports. I use Debian as the host on that one.

On my laptop with Windows 10 LTSB I just use QEMU to run Debian in a VM for my Linux needs on the go, since the QEMU port for Windows is shitty and it has no good GUI frontends available.

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Distro hopping

Watching pron ofc

Porn games in one, pirated software in another, linux shit for fun and giggles in another, dev enviroment in another.

Earn money

How?

I'm thinking a VM with no network access would be the best way to play old flash/java games

(You)

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I administrate and manage virtual machines and the infrastructure around it. Deployment, automation, etc

Stuff and things.

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You know, nobody uses the thick client anymore, it's deprecated for some time now.

test powershell stuff I code
test python stuff I code
test deployment of backup and network monitoring tools
test shit like btrfs and zfs before going in to the wild
remote access to places
testing shit before doing it to my machine when its complicated, like i3 on top of kde

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Anything Windows really, that includes the heaviest of games. If I need to use Photoshop or Vegas, I do so through the virtual machine.

It has a passed 1080 and runs fucking beautifully. Sharing files through samba if I need access to the ZFS partitions I have on the GNU/Linux side. Easy access to whatever I needed including performance on the Windows side was the requirement that I had to jump permanently to GNU/Linux and I'm glad that I did.

Eh. If I run into any limitations I may upgrade, but so far I don't see a point.

Test OS, Test Software, & labbing

I test operating systems.

I'm thinking about using a VM to house muh cryptos. Is this a good idea? How isolated is a VM from its host on VirtualBox?

A few different things
I'm an amateur malware researcher, so I run viruses on them without trashing my own system or needing a throw away device.
I also like to try new operating systems without needing more than one physical device.
Baiting tech support scammers can be a lot of fun

when I have real work to do I boot up a Windows VM

I always put a VM inside a VM to make sure that I can be really safe when I'm installing H-games.

for testing distros and installing obsecure stuff

To run Win7 and OSX programs

>oh boy time to put my 8 core ryzen cpu to use
>get greeted with this bullshit
>download vmware workstation player instead

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I've always been used VirtualBox. Should I switch?

>Test OS
>Distro hopping
This is what I've done for the most part.

>-DragonflyBSD
Interesting, I've tried installing it several times, but it doesn't seem to install on the virtual drive. What I am doing wrong? (I'm using 4096 MB RAM, 1 Core and 25 GB virtual drive).

VMware is a fuck ton faster and you can get keys on eBay for like next to nothing so why not

Temple OS and BSD's.
I switched to kvm/qemu though.

Nice write up user. Good info here

What's the Jow Forums-approved QEMU GUI?
>inb4 "hurr durr just use the CLI"

to run an identical setup as my host to test updates before i roll them out on my host in case they fuck up my install

i use arch btw

Homework...that's literally it. I prefer Windows. Problem?

I use VMware to set up a network of 4 computers, 1 of which is a sniffer and 3 of which have different sorts of malicious data on them and interact with one another
that's not to say that I only have 3 VMs to test malware on, I have close to 15 but only 3 need be active at any given time
Also, the above is the ONLY reason for which one might buy more RAM than 16GB, in this day and age
t. Sec/NetEng

Sandboxing.

I run my lewd japanese cartoon games on it.

...

Malware testing and trying out different operating systems.

You should upgrade because of multiple reasons. VMware limits have changed, though most of it is only relevant for enterprise plus. Security and performance fixes. And iirc with 6.5 the vsphere interface is html5. The only thing that you might need the thick client for is the update manager.

SPSS in college

attempt to install gentoo, give up 15 minutes later