So... hardware multiboxing?

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Right now it's just a warning, the blue post stated that suspensions will follow "Soon thereafter, the warnings will escalate to account actions".
I recon the warning phase will last at least till Shadowlands launch and I continued playing every day with HKN after I received a warning for each of my wow licenses (6 in total).

Since only software was named in the policy update I plan on switching to hardware solution with one PC and Aster (VM) setup:

Existing Hardware:

Slaves Display: Luckily I already own an LG 43UD79 42" 4k display with 4x 1080p PBP / PIP options, can be easily set switched via remote.
Master: Acer XB271HU
i7-7700K
16gb DDR4
GTX 1080TI
GTX 1660

Additional Hardware ordered:

8 ports KVM switch USB synchronizer 8 ports synchronous controller a set of keyboard/mouse control 8 PC
(had to order on aliexpress, no retailer has it in europe/france, amazon.com doesn't deliver it to europe T_T, kudos to jak3676 pointing towards the tech)

PCI-E USB 3.0 Extension Card with 5x + 2x USB
(need more USB slots for the keyboard inputs)

16gb DDR4
(was planning to upgrade for some time now anyway, running 5-6 wow clients brings me up to 12-13gigs, running the additional VMs with~4-5gigs would hit a limit)

4x HDMI cable

4x Display Port to HDMI Adapter (graphic cards have mostly only DP outputs)


Goal

Run 5x Windows via Aster (https://www.ibik.ru/)
Keyboard sends a signal to the KVM switch USB synchronizer
Each Windows receives it's own hardware keyboard signal
Each Windows runs one wow client
4 slaves run on 4k display via 4x 1080p PBP
1 master on main display

That sounds like a good plan and as long as long as you limit 1 input causing 1 action to 1 client you are likely in keeping with both the letter and spirit of the law.

Grats on that 'LG 43UD79' as it is younger (and improved) sibling to my 'Dell P4317Q' as that should be pretty sweet!

What are the classes/roles you plan to run in your initial 5box?

Are you running 4Mages+Priest (4MP) or PaladinTank+3Mages+Priest (Pa3MP) or something else?