[Leaplist] question about VMWare client OS

[Mr. Brunkow]

Jason Boxman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
Thank you.  Sadly it is for a college class that mandates use of Windows
+ IE, so it has to have internet connection.  I refuse to use my
production winXP box (use it for video editing of my business videos) as
it is on its last leg and just do not have the time, storage space, or
cash to rebuild things atm.  So I am going to put VMware server on my
linux box and put winXP Pro in there for this class.

Annoying and down right criminal if you ask me, but what is one to do.

-- 
Raymond L. Brunkow
5th Degree Black Belt
Chief Instructor and Owner
Sun State Martial Arts LLC.
(407) 786-2525
ssma at ssma.us
http://www.ssma.us

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