Any chance you’d have a link to a tutorial on how to do this on hand?
shouldn’t be hard to share a folder, no command needed. Just mount the location in your VM settings.
Even when torrent clients say they bind to a second IP (for example, transmission), they still leak packets out of the primary IP.
You’re not in any danger for this.
When Rightscorp or BayTSP harvests IP addresses from the swarm, this is because the swarm actively gives them those addresses (it’s how the protocol works).
These companies don’t have undersea fiber taps or gigantic data collection facilities like the NSA. They can’t see those dns lookups, and if they could those aren’t actionable in court anyway.
You can’t trust them to really be bound.
Yes, you can trust them to be bound. Software is deterministic.
The VM is super easy, but there are a few recommended settings for RAM, Video Memory, 3D Display enabled and Hard Drive (fixed over variable for example). As for the terminal command to mount a folder, that’s just a line. I’ll send you what I have when I get home from work (It will probably be between 6:30 and 7:00 pm central)
I have to disclaimer this and say I’m a complete novice. Some of these might not be the best way to do it, but it works for me.
I think this is the ‘basic’ guide I followed when I installed the first time. Installing Ubuntu inside Windows using VirtualBox But a few tips to go along with the link.
- I have 8GB on my main machine, I dedicated 4GB RAM for the Virtual Machine.
- Fixed drive. Be careful of the size. Because when you mount a folder on your working machine, I think it takes that size into account for your space used. I made my fixed size too small (only 20GB) and have to be careful if I’m downloading entire series to not eat up my space. I mean your VM is just a temporary space anyway. You’ll be copying / moving your videos from the VM to a folder / drive on the main machine. In hindsight I would have gone with closer to 50GB. (I have a 240GB SSD on my main machine).
- Display. Max is 128 MB for video. No issue with setting this all the way to 128. and enable 3D acceleration.
- There’s a spot in the settings for shared folders as well. This is where you would specify the folder on your main machine that you will share with the VM.
I need another disclaimer I guess. It took me a couple of times to get it right. The VM is just a file that can easily be deleted and done over. Also need to say I’ve tried numerous distributions. And Linux Mint is the ONLY distribution that was not a huge pain in the ass to go native full screen. Everything else I tried truly sucks at full screen in VM without sometimes several extra steps. You’ll have to google that if you don’t install Mint as your VM.
Good luck and I’ll send that terminal command over tonight.
It’s not hard. And I know that setting. It just doesn’t work for on my machine. I have to mount in terminal and assign RW access as well.
re: leaking packets - I guess you’re ok with “good enough for now” where I want “the best possible with the given resources”
Software is deterministic.
Only as deterministic as it was written, given the same environment, and the same inputs… and the reason I stopped using a method like this was that transmission’s bind-to-ip functionality requires routing rules to work as you’d expect (which could be used to the same effect without using the bind-to-ip functionality.)
Have you added it in /etc/fstab? It’ll do this for you automatically every time it boots then.
I guess you’re ok with “good enough for now”
No, I just understand what the risks are. I’m not fighting against the NSA. So unless/until the MPAA gets some NSA-like powers to snoop on all internet traffic, they can’t see those leaks.
And, even if they could, those aren’t enough for criminal prosecution… and they’re even less useful for a civil lawsuit.
Only as deterministic as it was written, given the same environment
So how many low-level ip bugs do you think there are that will kick your client off of the address it’s supposed to bind to and accidentally connect to another?
Thanks. I had not done that yet. Will check it out.