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Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by wjdp »

keyringlight wrote: post #29
arghwhat wrote: post #13

The convenience of such a tool is great, but it's also ~5000 lines of bash across the two main scripts. I'd want to vet such a thing before I run it, but I also really don't want to read 5000 lines of bash.

I'd say this is a general issue with software, most generally how and what you do to establish trust, what expectations/responsibilities there are of a developer and user. The "many eyes make all bugs shallow" phrase does seem to be a little bit of a thought terminating cliché for some users, if it's open to scrutiny then it must be fine, conjuring an image of roaming packs of code auditors to inspect everything (I'd…

Googled that, found the GitHub with a of

> DO NOT DOWNLOAD TRON FROM GITHUB, IT WILL NOT WORK!! YOU NEED THE ENTIRE PACKAGE FROM r/TronScript

I see later it mentions you can check some signed checksums but that doesn't inspire confidence. Very much epitomises the state of Windows tweaky utilities vs stuff you see on other platforms.

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by bobim »

prmoustache wrote: post #20
acatton wrote: post #8

Just a security reminder from the last time this got posted[1] This tool downloads random files from the internet, and check their checksum against other random files from the internet. [2] This is not the best security practice. (The right security practice would be to have the gpg keys of the distro developers committed in the repository, and checking all files against these keys) This is not downplaying the effort…

Also, author is typing his user password during live streaming with a mechanical keyboard while microphone is on.

You mean that the sound of each key is unique and sufficiently different from the others? Or it has to do with how a person is typing?

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by cmiller1 »

prmoustache wrote: post #20
acatton wrote: post #8

Just a security reminder from the last time this got posted[1] This tool downloads random files from the internet, and check their checksum against other random files from the internet. [2] This is not the best security practice. (The right security practice would be to have the gpg keys of the distro developers committed in the repository, and checking all files against these keys) This is not downplaying the effort…

Also, author is typing his user password during live streaming with a mechanical keyboard while microphone is on.

While this comment doesn't seem 100% serious, I wonder if this kind of attack is made less effective by the trend in mechanical keyboards to isolate the PCB and plate from the case acoustically, e.g. gasket mount, flex cuts, burger mods. In my experience the effect of these changes is each key sounds more similar to the others rather than the traditional case mount setup where each key sound changes drastically based on its proximity to mounting points.

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by wolf89618 »

bobim wrote: post #32
prmoustache wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, author is typing his user password during live streaming with a mechanical keyboard while microphone is on.

You mean that the sound of each key is unique and sufficiently different from the others? Or it has to do with how a person is typing?

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Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by rwmj »

steve_rambo wrote: post #9

libvirt ships with virt-install which also allows for quickly creating and auto-installing Windows and many Linux distributions. I haven't tried it with mac. Here's a recent example with Alma Linux: $ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended Then you go for a coffee, come back and have a fully installed and working Alma Linux VM. To get the li…

Also

  $ virt-builder fedora-39
if you wanted a Fedora 39 disk image. (Can be later imported to libvirt using virt-install --import).

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by nu11ptr »

arghwhat wrote: post #13

The convenience of such a tool is great, but it's also ~5000 lines of bash across the two main scripts. I'd want to vet such a thing before I run it, but I also really don't want to read 5000 lines of bash.

Why is it different from any other software just because it is a shell script? Do you read the kernel sources for your OS before running it? Your web browser? My point is not that we should blindly run things, but that we all have criteria for what software we choose to run that typically doesn't rely on being familiar with its source code.

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by overengineer »

bobim wrote: post #32
prmoustache wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, author is typing his user password during live streaming with a mechanical keyboard while microphone is on.

You mean that the sound of each key is unique and sufficiently different from the others? Or it has to do with how a person is typing?

This is an actual attack surface: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284949922_Keyboard_...

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by ivanjermakov »

claviola wrote: post #26

UTM[0] does this quite well on macOS. They also have a small gallery[1] of pre-built images. 0. https://mac.getutm.app/ 1. https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/

UTM even works on iPads! I was able to run Arch Linux in TTY mode quite well.

https://docs.getutm.app/installation/ios/

Re: Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

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Post by sharikous »

sandbags wrote: post #33

I couldn’t answer this from the site. Will this let me run macOS Catalina on an M2 Mac Studio with usable graphics performance? Because that would give me back a bunch of 32-bit games I didn’t want to give up.

No. It will be slow as hell

But something like El Capitan will be somehow acceptable and Lion will be actually usable

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