Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources.
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How to ensure that VirtualBox guests can't break out of the vm to get access to the host machine? [duplicate]
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How secure are virtual machines really? False sense of security?
E.g. on Ubuntu/Fedora - if I have VirtualBox installed and I'm running guests in it, then how can I make ...
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Why must VMX instructions trap?
What would happen if each of these instructions didn't trap into VMX root when executed in VMX non-root?
INVEPT, INVVPID, VMCALL,VMCLEAR, VMLAUNCH, VMPTRLD, VMPTRST, VMREAD, VMRESUME, VMWRITE, ...
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VMWare Fusion Encryption and Snapshotting
VMWare Fusion 5 has an encryption feature that I have enabled, with what I would consider a hard-to-brute-force-crack password.
How secure is the data in this VM? If I shut down the VM each time ...
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Find changes and modifications made to system by application or virus,
I would like to use either Hyper-V or Vmware to take a Clean Base snapshot and a snapshot after an application or virus has made changes so I can then see what was changed between the two images.
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Windows 8 in a VDI environment and the use of Secure Boot
I have a question, How would secure boot be implemented in a virtulized environment, say XEN hypervisor with multiple guest OS's including Windows 8 guest VM? does the guest VM need access to the ...
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Can a virtual machine program view a host machine's connections?
I don't really know anything about computers. I need to run a virtual Windows machine inside an Ubuntu system. My current setup uses a stripped down version of Windows XP on VirtualBox. I intend to ...
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aircrack-ng under Win7 — possible?
What needs to be installed to get the full aircrack-ng suite (or the closest possible equivalent) working under Win7?
Should you use VirtualPC, VirtualBox, or VMware Workstation for this?
Should you ...
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Detecting Virtualization from web browser
is that possible active adversaries who injecting malicious iframes (root kits), without Flash, Java or any other plugin detect that we using virtualization by javascript or timing differentials and ...
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Boot or reboot to clean state on Windows each time?
I use virtual box to securely surf the web, but it's easy to get lazy and use the same image more than once. Currently, I have a golden Win 7 image that I built and loaded my required software. I ...
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VMware Workstation 9 Security Best Practice Guides
Could someone please be able point me in the direction of where I could find some best practice security guides for VMware Workstation 9 please? I've searched the VMware site and to say it's badly ...
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Can a malware jump from a virtual to the physical machine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How secure are virtual machines really? False sense of security?
I found out that malware authors check if the hard drive volume name,
or network card MAC matches ...
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VPS Safety in the Cloud
Imagine you are running a web server on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosted in a datacenter. Could the people running the datacenter covertly read files from my VPS's hard disk? Could an attacker ...
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Breaking out of the virtualization layer
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So I set up a virtual backtrack machine using VMware Workstation - I'm trying to launch an attack against the host OS (Ubuntu Linux) from the virtualized host (backtrack), but I do not ...
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Can a TCP connection with a VM be “escaped from” to reach the host? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How secure are virtual machines really? False sense of security?
If a VM (e.g. VirtualBox) on host A opens a TCP connection to a hacker Z, are there any possible ...
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Deploying vulnerable web application online
I am deploying a vulnerable web application for students (about 100) in a university, that they can test online and am collecting all the traffic for research purposes.
I am deploying this machine on ...
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VMware server 4.1 -how can I prevent VMs being exposed to each other through VMCI?
I have realized there are issues such as virtual machines being exposed to other VMs within the same system when they're connected to the VMCI socket interface. How do we prevent this ?
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Using a VM to access internet when malware blocks internet access?
My computer was recently infected by some malware which had blocked internet access. I had a virtualization software with an OS in it. Surprisingly, I could access the internet from the VM. I know ...
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Is there a way to make changes to a virtual machine, test it out, and automatically make same changes to normal machine?
Is there a way to install programs and make changes to a virtual machine and if they work ok have them applied to the "actual" machine? For example in this question when fiasco_averted says "...only ...
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Changing malware trends in VM
I recently came (Dunno, since when it was happening) to know that malwares can detect if they are running inside a VM like Vmware, and thus can change their behaviour.
So my question is how the ...
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Protecting LAN from remote controlled VMs
I am making a virtual network setup for my high school cybersecurity team to practice. I am connecting all the VMs together through a VPN and then people who are practicing will VPN in and ssh/remote ...
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undetectable virtualization apps to spoof web browsers [closed]
monitoring web pages for malicious iframes (root kits) without VM is not safe. when its possible to detect virtualization just by javascript, which software provide undetectable VMs ? QEMU is safe?
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Is Intel AESNI supported by Xen in VPS/Cloud hosting environments? [closed]
I'm having trouble determining whether when using a hosting company that uses Xen virtualization and Intel processors with AESNI embedded encryption, I would have access to AESNI (i.e., is it an ...
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Can web connections from a virtual machine guest using NAT attract attacks from the Web to the host?
The hosts OS might be Windows 7 and its firewall activated and the visualization is done by Virtual Box , but I think these details are less important.
This question might be related in some way to ...
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Setting up a remote test environment correctly
My setup:
- Main Box (connected to network)
- VM1 : Linux
- VM2 : Windows 7
Both the VMs are running off VM Player and using Bridged: connected directly to the physical network and replicating ...
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Will virus downloaded to guest OS affect Host OS? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How secure are virtual machines really? False sense of security?
If I download a file in Guest Windows XP machine in Vmware Workstation, which is a virus. Can it affect ...
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Configuration for a server [closed]
I would like to configure a server and need guidance in assembling a server. I do not wish to spend much but at the same time I do not wish to compromise on performance. The purpose for my server ...
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How Does VMWare Protect Passwords? [closed]
I am interested what features VMWare uses to protect passwords inside the virtual machine.
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Enable hardware virtualization in samsung netbook(Pheonix secureboot Setup BIOS)? [closed]
I have searched all the setting in my bios but coud not find a way to enable VT.
I have Pheonix Tech motherboard with an Intel Core i5. It supports VT according to the Intel Tool. When i run Apple ...
