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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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