On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:32:09AM -0500, Adam wrote: > I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Anyway, after all the > presentations and discussions about virtualization, I decided to give > VMware a try, and I was really impressed with it. Two tips for anybody > doing this: One, if you're going to install your guest OS from CDs, all > you need is the free VMware Server, not the player, and at least one > serial number, which is also free. Two, if your host OS is Mandriva > 2008.0, you'll need to install (at least I needed to install) > kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.9-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm from CD 3 -- > 'uname -r' will tell you which version to use. I installed Windows 2000 > as my guest OS with no more problems than usual. > > Question one, if I'm going to occasionally go online with the W2K VM > (through a DSL router), do I need all the antivirus, antispyware, > antiadware, etc. that I'd use on a real W2K machine? I'm guessing the > answer is "yes," unfortunately.
Yes, you should install all the anti-* stuff, as it is just as
vulnerable as a windows machine is.
> Two, if malware /should/ slip through, what's the worst that can
> happen? I gather that my W2K VM could be hacked, but is there any way
> that the rest of my system could be affected?
The infection will be contained to the windows vm. From time to time
you may want to snapshot the disk so you can roll back to a known
previous good state.
> Three, I couldn't find this in the docs. Is there a relatively easy way
> to move files between my virtual machine and my real machine? I know I
> could burn files to a CD, but that sounds like the hard way.
The way that I do this is to setup a samba server on my machine, and
share a portion of my home directory. Then I can mount that in windows
as a network drive, and easily shuffle things back and forth that way.
-Sean
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