utorrent in vm

I am thinking of setting up my utorrent in a vm, and configure it to always run via a vpn.

Has anybody have ant experience with this? Any general comments or suggestions?

thanks

 

Not sure as to why running in a VM.
The torrent client itself would not cause malware infections while performing p2p.

 

I think its a great idea, why not run all your daily apps like firefox and media/mp3 players and p2p programs in a virtual box/machine ?

All your is then kept away from your real windows as best as it can, all windows logs and logs galore and files are in the virtual machine/box.

For added security one can run the virtual machine/virtual box in a true-crypt partition or container there is a guide here:

https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/how-to-create-VM-within-hidden-truecrypt-partition

This way you have good security, and if your VPN is on in the Virtualbox/machine you have good privacy as well as protection.

 

Not for security (malware) but for privacy and convenience.

When I run utorrent I do it through a VPN but this has the effect that all my web connections go through it, and it generates two problems:
a. I have some SMTP email accounts and when using VPN they don't work outgoing - I understand that this is due to the VPN
b. if I need to login to sites, I am logged with the VPN server IP which I would like to avoid

My thinking is that running utorrent through a VM I would avoid both these issues.

Apart from looking for best practice suggestions, my main concern is whether using utorrent through a VM I might generate excessive disk writes (I have an SSD).

 

you dont need to tunnel the whole computer just to anonymize utorrent traffic

http://lifehacker.com/5863380/how-to-completely-anonymize-your-bittorrent-traffic-with-btguard

 

thanks for your suggestion.
apart from what the author says

I also use my vpn for other things, so it's a keeper, and would rather try not to subscribe to an additional service

 

Run an earlier more stable version, if you choose to do so. Information on Virtual Machine

 

Thanks for your suggestion. I am running the latest (+-) utorrent version on my desktop and never had an issue. Can I ask you what makes this a *more stable* version (apart from using, I assume, less resources)?

 

Less fluff - meaning less third party software and less options to wade through to make it work.

Read:Understand your Firewall settings.

Always render your Firewall settings to defaults when done.