botting with vmware workstation

My bots run in VM-Workstation guests using the same OS, - Windows 7 64bit -, like the host. . Each (1 Core, 1 GB, 3D accel.) connected from "inside" to the internet via an openvpn tunnels as the default Gateway. Means, they all run on one maschine in jails which different public IPs. If anybody is interested, I could make an virtual appliance for vmware-player. ;-) - One cool thing I've found out is, that you can make symbolic links like in linux/unix, even on directories.

something like mklink

mklink \\myserver\Data 'c:\World of Warcraft\Data' /d
or
mklink \\192.168.2.54\Data 'c:\World of Warcraft\Data' /d

So I shared this 25 GB in Data from one ssd harddisk on the host to all of the guests through the local virtual network.
The background was, that I don't want any of my bots playing from my home IP and also all ar capsulated.

good night & good luck

 

awesome, i bet the performance is killer.

 

Jesus Christ, you get like 5 fps when you run WoW on VMware's virtual pc.

 

sounds interesting.

 

You mean "microsoft virtual pc", right?
Try VMware workstation latest(7.1.3). You can download the full version for a 30 days trial period if you register at their site.

By the way, your cpu is idling at 5% on one core with one bot at fair graphis, 1024*768 windowed(fullscreen) at 30 frames. - The vmware 3d virtulizastion is something like a "direct3d passthrough". You need of curse CPUs with VT...

 

How do you get diferents IP's I have the same in linux with oracle VB, but i can't have 2 ip's , thanks in avance

 

I've tried "oracle" Virtualbox before. Was much too laggy on my quad-core 2,66. Give vmware a try. ;-)

As I've written I use openvpn to connect to vserver in the intert which you can rent very cheap. Afaik you can also use amazon cloud for it. The setup is quite simple if you are used to linux. So I send all traffic from inside the VM through an openvpn VPN-Tunnel through the Internet. And all my packets have the IP from the vservers in the internet. A bit like the NAT-networks most of us used at home (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 is your home network which is routed through your "default gateway" into the internet and vice versa. In my case I build a tunnel through the Internet to a server with a real IP and use this as my default gateway.

 

I made this as well but came to the conclusion that running multiple bot this way isn't profitable it's better to lose a few bots then do the investment in the hardware needed to run multiple bots.

() performance isn't bad you can run 3 or 4 bots on an i7 but the windows overhead and not having memory sharing in workstation will mean that you need a lot of memory. I looked into ESX whit 3D support whit virtual 3d support and a whole lot of testing didn't work out. () ESX does have shared memory but no 3d support

 

[QUOTE In my case I build a tunnel through the Internet to a server with a real IP and use this as my default gateway.[/QUOTE]

sounds very good but I think If you can run a virtual box for boting youĺl need a very powerful Pc. The point is that VM and w7 can write in this folders (wow) very interesting

 

Currently using pingbuster to change my IP in a virtual machine.

 

That was pretty strait faced for sarcasm.

 

The OP and you should look into esxi with vmgl. VMGL is a Virtual version of OpenGL, gives better graphics performance that DirectX. At least run VMware in linux using VMGL, running it using windows 7 as the host seems like the graphics performance would be shit.

 

well, except the hook that honorbuddy uses relies on directx. so running in open gl does no good.

 

That's downright disturbing. Why would you do that, when even WOW allows for OpenGL? I didn't realize you guys were such big microsoft fans.

 

Ok, so maybe I was being a little bit childishly reactive, but it annoys the hell out of me that marketing-centric products, like microsoft's, dominate the tech industry when technology-centric products, like many open source products, struggle to get integrated and supported.

Tell me then, can I run GB with OpenGL?

 

chances are its never going to happen, but if we do, you'll be the first to know.

 

Having a bitch of a time getting XP on vmware workstation 7.14.. keeps asking for cd key, any suggestions

 

Get a CD key lolololol!!!!

 

Ha, I went with vista, yeesh, windows xp was so persistent