Virtual machines

VMware Workstation should now be free (Broadcom owned now), and it's great software, go get it.

vmware workstation is free of charge, it's still proprietary and their main advantage imho is their graphics acceleration in windows guests
last time i checked the connections it makes it seemed to not call home (at least on the arch aur build, this was before boadcom) so it's not that bad even if it is proprietary

there is work being done to make a windows driver for virgl https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/24223

otherwise, just use raw qemu or proxmox
 
I mean Linux is technically a virtual machine so....
 
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I've got a virtualbox machine with windows xp installed. I think I might have installed it originally to fuck around with SMILE(a super metroid rom editor) if I remember right. I think it wouldn't work with WINE. I think I also used it to play Diablo. I don't really use it any more. I just let it sit on my hard drive taking up space.
 
Proxmox is good if you have a spare box to install it on. Realistically it's just QEMU with a web UI, I've found it to be very useful for spinning up random VMs when required and you can control it through the web interface on your main machine which is fine performance wise for light tasks or if you're just screwing around.

It is still possible to deduce the actual underlying OS by parsing the driver version of the computer's GPU with the WebGPU API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGPU_API
In which case, a virtual machine (ideally with GPU passthrough) would be necessary in order to truly spoof it.
Disabling hardware acceleration should prevent this but some sites will probably perform poorly and might make you stand out fingerprint-wise since I imagine most people wouldn't have it disabled.
 
I've got a bit over 15 Virtual Box machines. Most of them I don't really do much with, like the North Korean Linux which I just keep because it's weird . The ones I do use a lot are learning tools, like Metasploitable, or for one or two programs unavailable for Linux, which I have a couple versions of Windows for
I love those YouTube vids where they fuck with hackers and scammers using virtual machines.
I've done this but didn't think to record it. I got one of those tech support scam calls where some streetshitter tries to convince me my computer is sending out viruses. I cloned my Windows XP machine and let him in through TeamViewer and he "proved" my computer was sending shit out by showing me some random Windows logs with scary red icons and entering a random website into the W3C markup validation site, which naturally produced some errors that he said were viruses. He then said I could be in big trouble if I didn't stop sending the viruses and offered to remove them for a fee. I started fucking with him and when he caught on, he encrypted the virtual machine. I wish I had thought to record it. There wasn't anything like the Youtube scam baiters and no DO NOT REDEEM moment, but I had fun.
 
Use this post to talk about virtual machin-OOUUUUGH MY CLITTY LEAKING IM TRANSHEART HUMPING BALLOONS WHILE SHITTING AND FARTING IN A FURSUIT WITH MY FEET AND COCK EXPOSED PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK I TRANSHEART HUUSEN.OKITSUNE.COM I TRANSHEART BALLOONIES I TRANSHEART MSPAINT I TRANSHEART LOLICON I TRANSHEART SHOTA I TRANSHEART JAKPARTY.SOY I TRANSHEART EPI PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP PLOP SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK
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tried to shart on the website and niggle with threads award.
 
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