Hello Rivalino, Rivalino Matias Jr wrote: > Doesn't it have some code running in kernel mode? The only kernel code which accesses the network is the networking component that you removed.
> Agree. However, having root rights on the guest os users can run some sort of > program that they could not run inside the host os as ordinary users. For > example, they can run programs like nmap from the guest os and not from host > os simply because they cannot install it in the host os. They can run such programmes without having to install them system-wide (or they could run them inside of Qemu, which provides a similar though somewhat less polished environment to VirtualBox entirely in user mode, and without requiring any installation). To see this, try installing network software inside a VM and actually using it, to see what it can and can't do. Then look for Windows networking software which can be run without a system-wide installation (I believe nmap can be) and compare the results. Regards, Michael -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineer 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.tha...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
