On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:16 PM, John A. Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> r full disk encryption of a VM file system

Well, if your host is Linux you could use ecryptfs on the host
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECryptfs
...but it´s not very user friendly to configure.

I recommend instead to use EncFS that does the same and you can make
things easy with the "Cryptkeeper" GUI...

From the Archlinux wiki:
"EncFS is a userspace stackable cryptographic file-system similar to
eCryptfs, and aims to secure data with the minimum hassle. It uses
FUSE to mount an encrypted directory onto another directory specified
by the user. It does not use a loopback system like some other
comparable systems such as TrueCrypt and dm-crypt.

EncFS is definetely the simplest software if you want to try disk
encryption on Linux. "

"eCryptFS is implemented in kernelspace and therefore little bit
harder to configure. (...) EncFS this is not the case, because EncFS
is storing these informations in it's signature so you do not have to
remember anything (except the passphrase :-)."

See the cryptkeeper gui and you´ll see how easy it is
http://tom.noflag.org.uk/cryptkeeper.html

Disclaimer: never tried it for VBox containers, yet I see no reason
why it shouldn´t work.

FC
PS: On Windows hosts... there´s the NTFS encryption features
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypting_File_System

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