I have a bunch of VMs of various Linux distros...what do people do with VMs?

I put all my illegal porn and stolen credit card numbers on a virtual machine. You can't confiscate what isn't real! Checkmate, feds.

>Dual booting makes sense if you need proper hardware acceleration
Fair enough. just 99% of the time when I hear about people dual booting they don't need it. I just find the practice silly when you're just doing a programing environment, etc.
Also do find dual booting for gaming rather silly, just use Windows as your main desktop then Linux in a VM, and just suspend the VM when you're not browsing, etc. Just much quicker and seemless then dual booting.

>what do people do with VMs
shitposting
test environments
old/retro/backwards compatible systems
run a vm for work

got a windows 7 vm because aaxtomp3 for converting Audible audiobooks to mp3 doesn't work on Windows 10.

>Also do find dual booting for gaming rather silly, just use Windows as your main desktop then Linux in a VM, and just suspend the VM when you're not browsing, etc. Just much quicker and seemless then dual booting.
You lose the privacy aspect of using Linux if you do that, that's why people dual boot in those cases.

I mean I guess, you can just encrypt the VM's filesystem or whatever, but if you were REALLY worried about such thing you sure as shit would not be using modern x86. You can't be throwing around using Windows as a host as a concern and use hardware that is even further compromised.

that's going in a screencap

Windows 98

Oh noes, not a screen capture!
You people really can't understand jokes, can you?

I think he was applauding your joke

I've always tried to find a good way to use older OS's like Win 98 with my VM, but I just cannot find one. The only thing I did was play Jagged Alliance 2 and Homeworld Cataclysm on a XP VM. I just can't think of any fun software to try out.

VMs are really bad for playing games with 98 since there is no hardware acceleration and lack of proper card sound emulation, also your raw CPU speed being exposed to 98 and it's applications can also fucking things up.
You really want to use something like PCEM for 95/98 gaming.

Personally, I keep an old P3 around for that kind of stuff. Dell Opti GX200 with 512MB of RAMBUS ram, a 32MB Radeon 7200, and a Soundblaster Live. Has Win98SE on it and plays all of my old games that refuse to run under newer versions of Windows.

I use VM's to separate my workstation environments for my freelance clients. I was using my primary desktop, but I can't track time and shitpost or other non-work related shit without getting the occasional screenshot of said shitposting captured and uploaded for the client to see. So, I have a VM for each client: Several CentOS and Ubuntu Linux VM's and a few Win7 vm's for my Windows clients.

>Personally, I keep an old P3 around for that kind of stuff.
Same. But I also keep around a PowerPC mac with System 7.5 and a 486DX2
All 3 PCs are networked and hooked up with a KVM switch to share the same monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse (except for the Mac, that has it's own mouse and keyboard).
The 486 is for anything 70s-95
The P3 is for 96-04.
Everything else newer then that usually runs just fine on 7.
Also have a P1 with a VooDoo2 in it but isn't hooked up currently.

I used to have a 486 for that reason as well. Had an old Compaq Prolinea 4/66 w/64MB RAM, 4.3GB hard drive, Diamond Speedstar 64 isa video card, and an AWE64 in it.

TempleOS. Daily offerings to Mr. God.

Thanks, I've never heard of PCEM and that's exactly what I need. I tried to play Brade Runner in a VM but the sound was fucky.

No prob.
Just keep in mind that it's really demanding (single core). Don't set the emulated CPU speed more then 166Mhz+MMX if you want to avoid stuttering.

vms are retarded if you actually use the system a lot
just dual boot, it will run faster and will have no network or whatever problems

They are useful only for database servers and running old systems if you want to play some nostalgiafag shit

>network or whatever problems

Spoken like someone who understands what they're talking about.

I think everyone has a couple of VMs sitting around, mostly vagrant boxes.
I have CentOS because I wanted to check out SELinux stuff.
I have Ubuntu because why not. Once someone on IRC had an apt-related question so I could just fire up the vm and figure it out.
I have OpenBSD because I wanted to check out BCHS. C programming on OpenBSD is a real pain. But if you get it to work there it will likely run everywhere. I still used emacs from my host system so that was a nice thing to try as well.
I have Haiku just because. It's pretty.

That's about it, I think. On my laptop I had a couple for a few presentations where I wanted to demonstrate some networking stuff (firewalls etc.) and a fork bomb.

I have a Windows 95 VM for 16-bit programs, but I really should replace it with a Windows 98SE VM one of these days

i pretend to like arch in a vm. then i go back to windows because im too lazy to set up passthrough.
also use another vm (homestead) for laravel and magento testing webserver although that is slow as balls, because of shared disk space. if you want shit to run fast, don't do guest additions. that shit sucks balls.

I need a small windows partition because of online proctored exams for a couple courses I'm taking. Those courses also need Kaltura for some bullshit PowerPoint narrations.

I use vm’s for malware reverse engineering.

test software we develop on all platforms we support

how long does your computer takes to boot???

Legacy distros cannot be used for reverse compatibility. I can't apt-get dependencies when trying to buld from source. Once the repo goes down the machine dies. the .deb files for whatever I am looking for are long gone as well.

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Don't debian and ubuntu have archive repo for eol releases?

why not do them in the fucking host os?

why the fuck isn't the source code statically linked nigger?

people still use virtualbox? lmao

You can test network deployments , for example pfsense by hooking it up with GNS3 if you're into networking and security as well

virtualbox is deprecated since KVM+libvirt was created.
tho I hear some hardware problems to make passtroughs

Use Docker and run separate Linux VMs and then use wine to run Windows programs. And do it in the cloud.

You're doing it right. VMs are for installing Linux and never touching again.

Stupid fucking pedophile. Enjoy your talk with the police.

>virtualbox for linux
A reminder that Qemu is available for all platforms and supports hardware acceleration from all the major players except Bhyve; stop using point and click adventures to host vms user.

Running 16-bit games on a 32-bit XP VM.

It's all snuff movies (with adults). Want to help me make one?

learning how to install Gentoo

ahahaha i can feel the fear in this reply.

sandboxing
vpn inside vm

>Rice them.
>Take screenshots.
>Shitpost on Jow Forums about their daily gnu usage
>Return to Windows.