Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.
Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.
Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.
@regendans It seems to be a zip file presumably with images in it that you never directly execute. Presumably. (Ok, I can't get a download to actually go right now...) I suppose exploits/etc in the VM softwares themselves allowing escapes can't be 100% ruled out either, but this is definitely not a curl | sudo bash setup.
EDIT: I stand corrected! It's an AppImage, so it is executable. It looks like it uses qemu and AppImages can typically be extracted manually but ymmv.
@nazokiyoubinbou @regendans That's a valid concern.
Extracting the AppImage for the VM images (or figuring out where the Lite version gets them from) and using your own emulator is probably safer. An (accidental) evil payload would be more likely to be in the initial binary than a complex VM escape in the images, I would say.
I'm hoping to clear up enough space tonight, and give it a whirl myself.
CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH
Regendans
Nazo