Hey guys can you let me know whats the best thing to do here? Because if i get a new laptop for this, i have to get it soon. I have my main computer that i do everything on it.
Also for those of you with VM, do all of you use a mac? Or some of you use windows? Because i have windows. And you can get virus on VM right? And if you do, do you need to format your VM? Or you just shut it down and open it again. The thing that confuses me with VM is someone said its a different OS. But all the porn and torrents i download, i would have it saved on this OS right? So when i turn on my laptop, i get the option to choose, my windows OS which has my regular things, and the other OS which has my porn, torrents? And don't you have to allocate ram however to the other VM? I only have 8gb ram that i need when i use my computer. But can someone explain the dividing the ram and how that works? I mean i assume you dont have to say okay 6 ram for my computer and 2 ram for OS right? What about the hard drive? With a 250gb hard drive, what happens? YOu need to allocate them into 2 parts? If thats the case, i want to use as little ram for the other OS as well because i need the full 8gb on my main computer. I don't mind say using 30gb on say the other OS though. But can you change this anytime?
Also most people watch porn. Do majority of you only stream porn then? Im sure lot of you want to watch certain porn videos where you have to download the video on a forum. What do you do then? I know lot of you download it etc so do most of you just do it on your main computer without anything besides your antivirus? Because that might not be strong enough etc.
Most porn users don't consume enough porn to even bother checking the forums, let alone downloading anything from there. Most people just stream a bit, spank it and move on to other, more useful and productive things in life. I think you're very much in a minority here. There is such a thing as porn addiction, you know.
As far as your VM questions go, I'll try answering them in order.
You can run a VM on any OS, with any OS running inside it. I've run VM's in windows and OS X, it doesn't matter.
Yes, if your VM is a windows install, it can get a virus. A lot of VM programs allow you to take snapshots. If you do get a virus on the VM, you can simply revert back to when it was virus free if you take frequent enough snapshots. If not, you can downright delete the VM and start over. Your main OS remains virus free regardless.
A VM is a program, just like word, excel, whatever else. Except that program is a whole other OS, that can run things like your browser or whatnot. Think of your computer controlling another computer. Say you're under windows and running a linux VM, you would boot your computer normally. You'd go to the start menu, find your VM program (virtual box, VMware, whatever), open it. Choose the VM you want to use, press start, and the VM will boot inside the VM program's window. There is no rebooting involved.
You do have to allocate some of your RAM to the VM, you get to choose how much. I usually give it enough so that it runs without a hiccup and leave it there, usually 1GB or 2 is enough.
As far as hard drive space, it depends on how you create the VM and what you created it with. I know VMware allows a "dynamic" hard drive. Meaning the VM's size will only be as big as it needs, you do not have to give it a fixed size. I'm not sure Virtualbox offers this.
Find a tutorial online man, it really isn't hard and you can't mess anything up on your computer by trying it. Explaining it is fine and all but there's nothing like giving it a go.
If you find it too cumbersome, just buy that other laptop and be done with it.
