08-16-2019, 11:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-16-2019, 11:43 AM by firenice03.)
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Lets say you're referring to installing XP w/ IE6 in a guest VM. You are correct, I wouldn't use this set up to do my banking and taxes. Would I for nostalgia, sure. Would I connect to the internet - probably not.. That goes for LL 1.0.8 with Firefox 26.. Its out dated and would have potential security risks..
So how is the OS/Browser a security concern for the Hypervisor?
Whether Virtualbox, VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, Parallels or ?? ??
Any OS in a VM needs to have its own security/update policy in place..
One could do their banking without problems if that's all the VM was used for -- but in roulette green comes up once in a while. I would also hope the bank site would inform the browser in use was outdated
In the same manner - you could have the most secure OS/Browser (i.e. Tails/TOR) current and updated. Running it on an XP OS host with a VMWare hypervisor inadvertently making the guest less secure (at certain layers)... Not truly isolated at the hardware layer, but OS's for the most part... But that's another rabbit hole..
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Lets say you're referring to installing XP w/ IE6 in a guest VM. You are correct, I wouldn't use this set up to do my banking and taxes. Would I for nostalgia, sure. Would I connect to the internet - probably not.. That goes for LL 1.0.8 with Firefox 26.. Its out dated and would have potential security risks..
So how is the OS/Browser a security concern for the Hypervisor?
Whether Virtualbox, VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, Parallels or ?? ??
Any OS in a VM needs to have its own security/update policy in place..
One could do their banking without problems if that's all the VM was used for -- but in roulette green comes up once in a while. I would also hope the bank site would inform the browser in use was outdated
In the same manner - you could have the most secure OS/Browser (i.e. Tails/TOR) current and updated. Running it on an XP OS host with a VMWare hypervisor inadvertently making the guest less secure (at certain layers)... Not truly isolated at the hardware layer, but OS's for the most part... But that's another rabbit hole..
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