This is because NAT acts like a router: the VM is on the LAN side of NAT, and the host & physical LAN are on the WAN side of NAT. Scottgus1 wrote:I won't stick in too much into my colleague Mpack's ongoing assistance, but I will point out that yes, the VM can access the host and the physical LAN through NAT via the IP addresses of the host and LAN devices. For the network portion, would a possible solution to ensure isolation be running a virtualised pfsense/opnsense to manually handle the double nat and talk? vingal Posts: 8 Joined: 21. Hyperjacking prevention? Seen some video of people executing malware in virtualbox and it being detected by the host operating system on this hosts system, what setting prevent this from occurring ?Ĥ. Where is the permissioning? How can it be prevented from writing to the host hard drive ? How can it not leak from volatile memory between all ?ģ.
Thanks for pointing that out, I had no idea that on VM has absolutely no way to write a malicious file to another. VM can talk to host, quite concerning NAT mode.Ģ. For the first point, you can ping the host, from a VM but you cannot ping a VM from the host. What is the mechanism you imagine exists which can copy files between PCs (virtual and physical) without your permission and action?ġ. VMs use their own virtual hard drives via a virtual disk controller - they have no access to host drives. Host and VMs do not use the same hard drives. Vingal wrote:-If Host and VMs all use the same hard drive, what prevents on VM from propagating malware to another VM or onto the host If Host and VMs all use the same hard drive, what prevents on VM from propagating malware to another VM or onto the host vingal Posts: 8 Joined: 21. In Nat => even is VMs cant talk, any VM can access the host in this mode
Thanks for replying, carefully read your response but I am not sure it effectively solves my situation, couple of quick points below:
don't keep executable files in shared folders. Malware doesn't propagate by magic spells: you have to help it along. However in that case all VMs on the guest network can see each other if they run at the same time: is that really a concern? This is especially true if you only visit https sites, as that prevents packet contents being sniffed as they pass.Īnother option is bridged networking, but only to a guest network on your router. If you use NAT networking then the VMs can access the Internet, but not the host or each other. They can only communicate with each other and with the host if you allow it. Mpack wrote:VMs are deaf mutes by default. Please let me know what is the best way to achieve the desired result to prevent malware from spreading to host or other vms ? Hopefully this thread will be a repository of information to others looking to achieve the same thing, I will do my best to post my findings and results of my experimentation but would like your input.
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Some initial ideas thoughts and questions:ġ) does it make sense to connect all VMS to a virtualized OPNsense to prevent them from talking to each other and to host but provide access out to internet ?Ģ) Is there a way to pass through dedicated drives for each VM or a way to segment partitions to prevent malware spreading from one vm to another ?ģ) Host protections not sure how to isolate the host?ģ) Memory is a shared asset, is there anyway to protect volatile memory amongst VMs ?Ĥ) I am sure there is a lot I am missing, any ideas, and is what I require beyond the capabilities of Virtualbox or is it at all possible.
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I can crash the mouse capture out of the window by sleeping the PC (pressing the power button) then logging back into Windows - that results in the mouse being free.Looking for a solution to be able to prevent malware spreading between VMs and also prevent spreading to Host.Įach VM will be used to test applications which may be malicious, and that DO require an internet connection. Conversely, clicking in the VM window captures the mouse just fine. I have deleted and reinstalled the new virtual disk image (along with Centos 7 desktop) maybe 4 or 5 times now from scratch and the host key does not uncapture the mouse. (I uninstalled this.) However, when I create a new virtual hard disk using the. Previously I had installed an image from an existing VDI I had downloaded - CentOS-7.2-1511-x86_64-gnome.vdi and the host key seemed to work fine. The host key (Right Ctrl) does not uncapture the mouse, so I cannot switch back to Windows. Hi, I'm just starting to learn Linux and have installed Centos Gnome 7 ( CentOS-7-x86_6.iso ) in VirtualBox ( Version 5.1.14 r112924 (Qt5.6.2) ) on my Windows7 laptop.
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