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  1. Thank you for the reply I agree with all the above. Thankfully I am paranoid enough that I take the extra steps so I don't have any surprises and I turn off features that I don't need like network file/printer sharing. I suppose the unraid set-up will work quite well and keep things safe with precautions. But I am paranoid...so I decided on several extra steps to lower my anxiety, lol I bought these easy to remove 5.25" to 3.5" hdd and 5.25' to 2.5" ssd enclosures that fit inside the top tower slots at the front where the CDplayer normally goes. They are basically what you use to hot swap. Thou I will not be hot swaping. Each enclosure will have different storage media with a different OS for Windows, Linux, older Windows, etc. The principle is to only plug in one OS hdd/ssd at a time for when I need it and leave the rest unplugged. Yes. It is more work, but easy. Pop one out slightly and push a different one in. It's a full tower case so the ones not in use will just barely be unplugged and pulled out just an inch or so. There are no kids around so there won't be any accidents with this setup. This way there is no way something can spread from one OS to the other as there is never more than one OS attached at a time. I also took precautions not to infect one with another so there will be no shared media among them. Unfortunately, with this setup I do lose the advantage of unraid simplicity, parity and having dual or more VMs on at once. But that is a trade off that is well worth the increased security and lowering my anxiety, plus this way I get to touch my PC case more often (Giggity )
  2. Hmm, Not sure. I have thought of a less graceful workaround to keep 2 Win10s separate from infecting each-other. Correct me if I am wrong while I explain my idea. Have both win10s installed on separate drives (not using unraid in this example) and in BIOS only boot the HDD or SSD that needs to be used at that moment. Theoretically that should keep an infected file from reaching other storage media. However I am not sure if disabling a drive in BIOS means it is truly disabled. The downside is that you can only use 1 win10 image at a time and not both at once, thus for me that is ok as I only need one to test things. This should give me maximum speed as well which any VM other than Unraid would not have been able to pull off easily. Do you think this might work? I am open to suggestions, and I am ok with only one image being operational at a time.
  3. Hello. I have seen Linus do 2 gamers 1 PC and would like to do something similar but not sure how security works. If one of the win 10 VMs becomes infected with malware, can that spread from 1 VM to the other VM? How can I stop that from happening? Thank you.