Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
by gentleman11 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:49PM
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How is usability? It’s a very appealing model but it sounds confusing
Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
by aj3 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:40PM
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It's great at what it does. Much more useful than I expected, feels more thought out than some commercial alternatives.
XEN Virtualization with their custom X-passthrough driver is super fast as well. No hardware acceleration of course, but it didn't feel choppy at all. As long as you have enough RAM (I'd say 16GB at least), it works pretty much like bare metal (even though there are several VMs running in background at all times for network, fw, usb, etc), way faster than Spice, VNC, RDP or Virtualbox (talking about UI not number crunching).
Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy
by vladvasiliu on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:16PM
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That's what I've been wondering too, especially now when more and more applications are starting to use hardware graphics acceleration.
All applications run inside a VM, and you set up different VMs for different tasks. The windows are all composited onto one seamless desktop environment, with the colour of the window decorations telling you which VM it's in. You can copy and paste between the VMs with a special keyboard shortcut, and you can manually copy files between them as well, but otherwise they have no access to each other.
If you open some ransomware in one VM, it can't touch (or read, or know of the existence of) any of the data in other VMs.