Guide Virtual Machines

Hello everybody.

Today, we’ll be going through how to set up a virtual machine. There are some major advantages to botting through a virtual machine, which include:

• Virtual machines have an independent mouse.
• Virtual machines can be minimised.
• Virtual machines aren’t affected by your computers annoyances (scheduled virus scans blocking the screen etc.)

We’ll be using free virtualisation software: VirtualBox. I’ve used paid virtual machine software (parallels etc.), and none of them compare to VirtualBox when it comes to efficiency (running XP). Plus, VirtualBox doesn’t have any annoying validation checks (comes in handy later on). To navigate to the VirtualBox download page,click here.

Next, we need an operating system for the virtual machine use. Since BetaBot can only be run in a Windows environment, we need a lightweight Windows operating system, so we’re obviously going to be using Windows XP. Windows XP can be acquired in many ways, and I’m not looking for Microsoft to come cap my ass, so finding a copy (whether legit or not) is being left completely up to you. All I’ll say is that there’s a certain bay where pirates hang around that linksMicroXP v0.82.

So, we’ve got the virtual machine and we’ve got the operating system… now we’ve got to set the thing  up. Thankfully, VirtualBox makes setting a virtual machine up easy as pie. Make sure you give it enough video memory (I give mine 128MB), RAM (I give mine 1024mb), and CPU’s (I give mine 1 – I only have 2, and giving the VM both cores can slow it down)… and ignore whatever it recommends – it doesn’t know what we’re doing, and Zynga Texas Hold’Em can be murder to run. There’s other stuff to tick, such as 3D and 2D acceleration… when in doubt, just tick.

Then you’ve got to set up the operating system – again, is easy even if you don’t know how. Once set up, give XP a decent enough resolution (1000x* tends to work), and turn off cleartype (how to here). Restart, and you’re off (after you’ve downloaded the bot and recorded your seat, that is)!

Note: If you're computer's too slow to run a VM, then it simply won't. Here's my laptop specs, so anything equal to or greater than will obviously work (that's not to say that anything weaker couldn't)