EAC VM false positive concerns
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HcgRandon
I am extremely concerned about false positives. I run VRChat in a KVM Windows Virtual Machine as my Host Operating System is Linux as I refuse to install Windows on physical hardware.
Anyways. I know It's a rare case but I really don't want to have to stop playing VRChat (or more likely hide that I am in a VM) just because of some malicious actors. Please either ditch this plan or make sure VM's are not considered as "Detected". Or make a official Linux client or improve VR emulation via proton, which sucks as it is now.
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r2f2
it was never a false positive EAC was not designed to work in a vm, they just used shoddy detection of just checking smbios information which most people set to their real values. It works now by tricking EAC into thinking it's not a VM by disabling all hw accel with the hypervisor extension disabled.
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HcgRandon
https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/1212-please-dont-block-vms larger upvoted post referencing my concern.
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SeppyYT
naitive linux support would be so nice to have and imo is the ideal scenario, really hope this happens. But if not then any of the other options are second best
xantoz・ザントス
SeppyYT: imo SteamVR in Linux is sadly still lacking (particularly a lot of SteamVR overlay add-ons I've gotten used to), so a native client wouldn't really change much, unfortunately.
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Googie2149
SeppyYT: A native SteamVR client also wouldn't help those running Windows Mixed Reality headsets.
Bunkerotter
Googie2149: that is a WMR issue, SteamVR and SteamVR Headsets (all the Vive and Index) run on linux natively.
HcgRandon
As I suspected this will indeed be an issue, thanks & credit to MOONVRCHAT and float3s on twitter for posting about this: https://twitter.com/MOONVRCHAT/status/1551642606509195266
Shijikori
I also used to do this! I no longer can but I want to keep using a virtual machine in the future whenever I'll be able to fix it.