On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Alexey Eromenko <al4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> No, I got that part, thanks. The instructions are clear, if a bit >> manual, and guest additions work fine. I can move the Linux (host) >> mouse and the OS/2 (guest) mouse follows it; I'm hoping to achieve the >> reverse. >> > Reverse? > Moving host's mouse from guest ? This would be a security issue, and > therefore disallowed.
I can see the issues with it, but it's no worse than facilities like clipboard sharing. When the guest is trusted, it's not a problem; when the guest's not trusted, you don't enable the option. Here's the scenario. We have a number of OS/2 computers that are getting a bit old; 32-bit operating systems aren't that great these days. But there's some software that the users want to keep using, totally not worth porting to Linux, and we want to be able to support it via virtualization. By running OS/2 inside Linux, we gain a variety of benefits, including easy migration of some parts of the daily work (for instance, web browsing can be done with a Linux browser instead of hunting down an OS/2 port of FIrefox that lags behind in versions). Most of that project is working quite happily (there are issues with printing, but that's separate), but there are small "rough edges" that make things feel uncomfortable. It's hard enough to "sell" the idea of virtualizing without having extra barriers in the way of things :) The OS/2 guest is fully trusted. It used to "own" the whole computer, so there's no reason to forbid it access now. It sounds to me like this is something that nobody's ever bothered to code, which is something of a pity, but it's not fundamentally more dangerous than other shared facilities - and ISTM I'm able to make mostI'm able to make mostit's a lot LESS dangerous than, say, bridged networking or shared USB. Chris Angelico ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
