On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM, intrigeri <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have seen posts regarding running vmware's networking through Tor, >> but have not seen anything specific to what I am doing. > >> I am running Tor inside a linx virtual machine based on virtualbox, >> configured to use bridged network access. check.torproject.org >> happily says i am running tor. So my questions are > >> 1. Does this mean as along as I run the browser from inside the >> virtual machine I am safe? > > This setup gets you a bit more safety than not using VirtualBox at all > because the host IP and hardware are not directly exposed to the > guest. I am not sure about indirectly, so I am unsure of the practical > gain, if it exists at all. > >> 3. We already have usb based torbrowser, I was hoping to use >> virtualbox to build usbbased tor operating system package. Has this >> been done before? This is so that they can just plug in the "TorVM >> Usb" into a spare usb and run a virtual machine, with access to all >> the unix tools running through tor. > > You may want to have a look to Tails features (and TODO list) with > regards to virtualization: > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/virtualization_support/ > > The last section, about "Portable VirtualBox" et al., may be of > particular interest to you. Help is welcome. In case you decide to > build a fully Torified OS from scratch, please have a look to the > Tails design document before you actually start: > > https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/ > > ... it may convince you you actually don't want to undertake that > mission, and you may eventually prefer to help us making Tails better :) >
Yes, this is definitely similar to what I wanted to do, except I was looking into *bsd as the guest os. The tails webpage also indicates a similar concern, whether this actually serves the purpose of anonimity if the host OS is a paid OS in some publicly accessible computer. I need to read up a bit more. thanks fernan _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
