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by Hackbraten 585 days ago
If you're trying to play older 32-bit games, chances are you'd like to have sound, too.

Who is going to develop the virtual audio device drivers (for each OS) that are required to virtualize sound? Who is going to run all the tests needed to make sure that the guest-side 32-bit iOS 7 (and 8, 9, 10) drivers are going to play well with the host-side driver?

Who is going to accept the risk that someone takes over the guest VM after exploiting one of the well-known and unpatched kernel-level vulnerabilities present in iOS 10? What happens if malware finds and exploits a bug in that new audio driver virtualization pipeline so it can escape the VM and then compromise the host iOS?

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yeah it's much better to lose access to games you've paid for. this is why I stopped buying apps on Android - if it's not open source, I'm not interested. I also don't buy DRM stuff unless I know I can remove the lock.