[Leaplist] question about VMWare client OS

[Jason Boxman]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008 06:59:04 Mr. Brunkow wrote:
> Is the client OS completely separate from the host OS?  In other words
> if something gets infected on the client (child/VM) OS, will it in any
> way affect the host OS?

In general, the other guests and host are completely isolated.

Infection over TCP or UDP is obviously still possible, but the filesystems are 
completely separate.  If the guest offers no services, you can simply not 
give it a network device and then there's no network risk at all.


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