Re: [vbox-users] best method for virus scanning

2009-02-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 09:11 +, Peter Ford wrote: I'm currently working on improving my original solution to the problem of viewing VDIs outside of VBox - I ran a Vbox using a lightweight Linux distro on a live disk image (a Damn Small Linux ISO works quite well) and then mounting the

Re: [vbox-users] best method for virus scanning

2009-02-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:13 +0100, Fabien Meghazi wrote: Heck, I don't know why everyone isn't just using a flat (i.e. dd'able) image. :-) That would mean fixed sized image I guess. Better for performance, but I guess a lot of people need the growable feature. Indeed. It has

[vbox-users] best method for virus scanning

2009-02-01 Thread news
Hi all, I have a windows XP guest running on an Ubuntu host. In the virtualbox documentation it recommends against running a virus scanner in the guest. Is it possible to scan the vdi file for viruses by running a scanner in the host (e.g. with clamav), and