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Safest way to run pirated games? (lemmy.getmeotter.work)

submitted 9 months ago by biscoot@lemmy.getmeotter.work to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] XCraftMC@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

Virtual machines. Disable drag-and-drop and shared folders/clipboard. It’s still not impossible to escape the vm but it’s very difficult and most malware isnt capable of doing that.

[-] XCraftMC@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 months ago

Don’t use VirtualBox. It’s great for most things but it’s not powerful enough for games. Use VMware Player or Workstation and use the max amount of vram it’ll let you.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I can't speak for VMware's technology, but the company just got bought by Broadcom, so treat them with Red Hat-like suspicion.

[-] XCraftMC@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

oh yeah no the company is sketchy af. The product is better for this specific use case though so that’s why i’m recommending it

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I wonder how VMware does this, cause in the case of nvidia the gpu is usually pretty locked down and requires some girhub-arguably legal code to work on kvm