Safest way to run pirated games?
What's best practice to safely play pirated games on Linux? Looking to mitigate potentially malicious executables from wrecking havoc on my system.
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What's best practice to safely play pirated games on Linux? Looking to mitigate potentially malicious executables from wrecking havoc on my system.
Why not use KVM? It's FOSS, and it's pretty simple to use, at least in my opinion. All I know is that I wouldn't want any company spying on me if I was doing something illegal.
KVM requires a second gpu to utilize gpu-acceleration. Unlike VMware, which can just steal vram from your one card and use it for the vm.
Actually, KVM doesn't necessarily require a second GPU for acceleration. If you have a CPU with integrated graphics, you can use that for the host system and pass through a dedicated GPU to the VM.
The CPU with "integrated graphics" is a second GPU.
Referring to integrated graphics as a 'second GPU' is somewhat misleading. They do provide additional graphics processing, but they're part of the CPU and not a separate, dedicated graphics card.
But it still processes GPU code, telling anyone you can run vulkan on your 'fancy CPU' they'll probably look at you like youre crazy
Also then for a device without a dedicated, would you consider not to have a gpu?
Running Vulkan on integrated graphics isn't the point here. Integrated graphics in a CPU are not what people typically refer to as a GPU. So, if someone asks what GPU I have, I wouldn't say 'Intel HD Graphics' or such; that's just the integrated graphics capability of the processor, not a discrete GPU.
Yes, absolutely.
You could do a setup with a laptop/other pc and use a vnc server. Requires not too much setup with systemd and x11vnc, and provides all inputs + greater host/guest isolation (ie the jellyfish exploits)1
edit: want to add onto this that no one would probably ever spend the time to implement an exploit like that in just a cracked game, but hey its still worth mentioning