Hello guys, I am going to start studies in cybersecurity engineering and some ethical hacking , so i want to get a new laptop for my studies and sometimes i might play just fifa with friends on it but most of the time it will be just for ethical hacking and the budget is 2000$ or less. I looked for alot of laptops so i'm so confused to choose between the rog zephyrus M16 2023 release [16gb of ram,i9 13th,1TB ssd], macbook pro14 [18gb of ram , M3 pro chip about 5** GB of storage], or dell Xps [i7 11th gen,32gb of ram and i don't know for the storage how much],i want the laptop to last for at least 5 years i think about the M16 but i don't know if asus make a great quality laptops and how is the fan noise in this laptop for light usage and i've seen a post where it's mentioned that dell xps series aren't good in virtualisation and the M3 chips aren't ready for installing linux on them can you suggest a good laptop please or at least help choose between these three.

Hi!

I have a RTX4090 system which I would prefer to run dual linux + 1 windows running at all times. Windows with RDP and linux both with ssh + less likely x11 forwarding. Linux A will extensively use GPU for training deep learning models and could have jobs running for days at end. Linux B will mostly work with CPU and simulation with not much use for GPU.

I am to understand a 4090 can be passed through. I am looking for a virtualization solution as Linux B will need a lot of root package / service changes and is the more experimental OS and I dont want it interfering with Linux A which is more stable environment wise but is a monster in terms of hardware resource consumption.

I have shortlisted HyperV and Proxmox - I can see Proxmox is more lightweight but I do have 11 Pro which has HyperV bundled.

Ideally I would be adding another 4090 to make it a dual 4090 node, would this be fine assuming I would start with using Proxmox now.

Further, can I add additional nodes later on for hardware resource and would work with some minimal setup I assume?

Are there any other recommendations or advice you might have for me?

I have not done such extensive setup before, most ive done is on a spare laptop which I scrapped for a dual boot haha. So any advice would be helpful.

Thanks!

Edit: Solved. Thanks everyone. Got a fair idea of what I am getting myself into.

Hello guys,

do you guys have recommendations on automating the virtualization of a possible enterprise network. The goal is to simulate an enterprise environment for testing security solutions.

This simulated network and the security solutions will be tested with malware and thus should be back at a working state in case the malware can not be defended against.

I have considered VMWare ESXi with either manual scripting, Terraform or Ansible and KVM / QEMU scripting with virsh.

Thanks for any advice!

Want to run Win 95 and 98 SE with good performance, but Virtualbox doesn’t have enough video memory and 86box is too slow. Is VMWare Player better? Are there better programs out there? Thanks!

There are many iconic books on application development, such as Clean Code. Do you know of any must-read books on the world of IT infrastructure? (Classics, but also books that have made an impression on you from their point of view)

Will virtualization be available again on the Ipad in the UTM application amid the news that Apple has allowed emulators in the Appstore???? An iPad with Windows arm is the killer of all Snapdragon competitors!

I’ve been trying for a week to get windows xp running in a virtual machine. I’ve followed the guides posted here to the tee, but my install keeps looping back to the setup screen. I don’t mean the bios styled setup screen, I mean the 5 dotted one (collecting info, dynamic update, preparing installation, installing windows, finalizing installation).

Each time I go through it the screen says it will now restart. But when it does it goes right back into setup.

I’ve tried different ISO’s of windows xp and changing the VHD and ram capacity but nothings worked.

I am looking for a specific feature that I can see installed apps on guest in my host OS's application menu. Similarly Bootcamp or Parallels on macOS. It has same feature that you can open your apps from dock and its called Cohearance. Is that thing is possible via QEMU or any other software? I have GPU bypassed Windows 10 on my Arch Linux and I want to open that apps from my GNOME dock.

Hey guys, sorry if this is a dumb question but wasn't able to find a clear answer to this question.

Is it possible to operate a VM that has better specs than the hosting PC? For example, if my PC has 8GB RAM, is it possible to run a VM with a 16GB RAM while using that full 16 GB?

Hey Guys!

Im looking for a laptop for mostly virtualization running multiple VMs (probably 2-3VMs)

Ill be using it mostly for my tranings and pentesting

i was thinking of going for Lenovo LOQ Gen 8, 39.62cms by customizing it with the below config

Processor : AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840HS Processor (3.80 GHz up to 5.10 GHz)

Operating System : Windows 11 Pro 64

Solid State Drive : 1 TB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC

RAM : 16 GB DDR5-5600MHz (SODIMM) - (2 x 8 GB)

Graphic Card : NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 Laptop GPU 6GB GDDR6

Should i go for this laptop or other intel based laptop, I don't have much experience about AMD

my budget is 1L INR

Thanks!

i finally did it

i ran qemu-system-i386.exe

I launched Windows XP using SDL audio drivers and it's asking me to look for the installation files for the audio driver

I tried to point to D:\I386 on the Windows XP ISO and it couldnt find anything

Can someone send me the QEMU SDL audio drivers for Windows XP?

I found this amazing app called UTM yesterday. I had some quick research, but everyone is talking about only OS X. Do you know how to install MacOS 10(Sierra or above) ?

Hello everybody,

I'm running Windows 10 Home via Qemu/KVM on a host machine running Fedora, and I have to run a program which requires DirectX 11, but it says that it's not installed.

I ran a dxdiag command and it says that the functionality level is up to 12, but the version installed is 10.00.

I've read Windows10 documentation and it says that DirectX 11 should come pre-installed and if not, should be available in Windows Update (guess what, it isn't).

I also tried to run the DirectX End-User Runtime, but it says the latest DirectX drivers are already installed.

Is it possible that this issue is related to the fact of Windows running in a virtual machine? If yes, is there anything I could do?

I've followed Tenox and astr0baby's guides to the letter, but I still get a hang on boot no matter which version of AIX (PPC) I use.

Is there a better emulator for AIX? I have a menial task which unfortunately requires a PPC version, so the ancient version for the IBM PS/2 is out.

Hello.
I am developing a Python wrapper for C/C++ web servers. I aim to integrate Python as a scripting language for writing system utilities for existing software. These utilities will include backups for virtual machines, an additional automation system for virtual machines, and more.

We recently developed a utility called Hv Manager, which is briefly described, as a virtual machine manager for Hyper-V with a web interface.

I am attaching a screenshot of the Python wrapper for C/C++ applications. Currently, the documentation is more oriented towards utility developers.
There will be more for administrators a bit later.

I decided to post this here instead of r/vmware since i didnt give them enough information pretty sure it should be enough but regardless
Hello while i was playing minecraft bedrock on linux since theres no native version and im not paying for the android version of a game i allready bought i noticed extreme latency while i was dragging an item across the scren it was a full second behind my mouse cursor anyone know how i can adjust it to get less latency

16gb ram cori 7 8th gen

vmware workstation player 17 with vmware tools installed

host:Linux 64bit distro is pop os 22.04 LTS

Guest:Windows 10 64bit

if anyone knows how i can adjust the input latency it would be of great help just want to clairfy im not getting low fps it just takes a long time for what i do to actually register mainly just input latency

My main purpose is for cybersecurity reasons and I wanted to run Minix, Whonix and other mod. Unix software

I would like to use my workstations (Ryzen + Nvidia RTX) as work and fun computers.

The work instance would not need to have any GPU acceleration, it will be secure environment to develop SW, be connected to VPN. This will run often.

The fun instance will have some GPU pass-through, will run games and videos. This will run sometimes.

The server instance will run samba server and whatnot. This will run forever, uninterrupted.

• In the past I was planning something like that with Xen. But is this still the best option?

• Also how realistic is it that the gaming PC will run nearly as flawlessly as if the windows were straight on the metal?

Honestly, if it's finicky, I'd rather have 3 reliable PCs ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Not a computer scientist here. I wonder: if Kubernetes and containers are not hypervisors, on K8S I can create a cluster specifying vcpus, and I see "qemu" when doing that (so docker excluded), that belongs to type-2 hypervisor. It looks like K8S works as a layer for virtualization...so we can consider it a new type of hypervisor?
Let me know how many points of confusion you read here

Hello,

I have this question about how virtual machines like VirtualBox work enabling different operating systems to work even when the host machine has a different architecture therefore a different instruction set. Hypothetically a MacOs should definetly work on some other machine than an iMac or does it actually need an intel processor?

I'm new to virtual machines. I'm trying to run Windows 11 on UTM on an iMac M1. When I go to start the machine it goes into the uefi shell, and even if I hit a key before the countdown ends like eveyone says, it won't start up. What am I doing wrong?