> I was interested in setting up a home based web server for my domain.
> This might be a dumb question but can you do that from a Virtual
> machine?

> "Trixie" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
>
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
> > Okay, I follow that re: the security of the VM. But what of my
> > physical machine? Will it be open to the same threats of the VM?
>
> The host machine and any virtual machines running on it are *COMPLETELY
> SEPARATE MACHINES*.
>
> Other than taking up some hard disk space, creating virtual machines will
> have *NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER* on the host machine. When a virtual machine i=
> running, it uses up some of the host's hardware resources just like any
> other application software does...
>
> Installing anti-malware software on the host will help to protect the hos=
> but it will have no effect whatsoever on the security of any virtual
> machines.
>
> Installing anti-malware software on a virtual machine will help to protec=
> that virtual machine, but it will have no effect whatsoever on the securi=
> of the host or that of any other virtual machines.
>
> The most important thing to remember is that a virtual machine is a *real=
> machine! The fact that it's made of software instead of hardware is
> completely and utterly irrelevant.
>
> Apologies if this still isn't clear to you, but I really don't know how t=
> phrase it any differently...
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVPhttp://www.markrae.net

>
> Hacking into the host would not give them access to any virtual machines
> running on it other than the file system on which the virtual machine's
> files are stored.
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVPhttp://www.markrae.net

> Okay, I follow that re: the security of the VM. But what of my
> physical machine? Will it be open to the same threats of the VM?

>> Apologies if this still isn't clear to you, but I really don't know how
>> to
>> phrase it any differently...
>
> No, its still not clear in one respect. I understand it is like two
> separate computers.
> But my other computer shares my cable *through my router*. In this case,
> the VM, even though it is *like* a separate machine, is not physically
> connected
> to my *router* which provides the extra level of security to our real
> machines.
> My concern is a doorway into my host machine because of this separate
> level
> of security being absent.
> Someone hacking into either of our 3 physical computers, which all
> have their own separate port, would have to get around that firewall
> to enter a second physical machine. If they got into my host machine,
> there is no router protection between the host machine and the VM is
> there?
> Wouldn't that be different than a second *physical* machine in that
> respect and thereby *less secure*?

>> Hacking into the host would not give them access to any virtual machines
>> running on it other than the file system on which the virtual machine's
>> files are stored.
>
> My concern is not someone "hacking into the host" to get to the VM,
> but hacking into the VM and then getting into my host!
>
> So you say I lose nothing by not having another *wired* port. (I don't
> have a wireless router system)