On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 03:01:55AM -0500, John A. Wallace wrote: > Do people encrypt the VM file systems? I mean, Is the data in the file > system of a VM just as readable as that in the file system on a regular, > non-VM, and it should, therefore, be encrypted? Or is it unreadable because > of the nature of the VM file already? >
As far as I know, it's as readable as the data on any physical hd. The source for VBox is freely available, so the specs for a vdi image are already there for anyone who wants them. In fact, I seem to recall there is already a project out there that can mount partitions inside GNU/Linux from a vdi image. So, yes, if you have data you want to secure, either encrypt inside the guest, or place the vdi file within an encrypted file system on the host. HTH. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
