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#12026 fixed option to disable microphone inside virtual machine bmn
Description

Feature Request / Summary

Guest can access to the host's built-in microphone. I do not want this, because if the VM gets compromised, someone can listen.

Can you add an option to disable this please? For example with some "VBoxManage setextradata vmname VBoxInternal/Devices/xxx 0" like command?

Justification

Use case

  • Using less secure things inside a VM (for example, flash) to prevent the host getting infected by malware if the less secure thing (flash) has a vulnerability.

Non-solutions

  • Muting the microphone on the host is no solution, because then Voip/Skype/etc. can no longer be used on the host or inside other VMs.
  • Muting the microphone inside the VM is no solution, because this can be reversed, once the guest operating system has been compromised.
  • Deactivating the virtual sound card in the VM settings is no solution, because this prevents hearing sound inside the VM. Viewing flash videos and so on is not much fun without sound.

Therefore not making the microphone available to specific VMs would be the best solution.

#3251 worksforme opensuse 11.1 / kernel panic jean-jacques
Description

If I start a fresh installed openSuse 11.1, the guest print out, from time to time, that there is a kernel panic. This occur while booting.

#3682 fixed opensolaris guest using shared folders writes null padded file. Rand S. Huntzinger
Description

First - thanks for adding shared folders for Solaris clients. Unfortunately, I seem to have found a problem on it. First - the setup.

Host: Dell 1850 running SXCE build 111. The system stores all files on ZFS (including shared ones) Guest: OpenSolaris (Indiana) - also build 111. VirtualBox 2.2.0 (installed yesterday)

I have a shared folder mounted on the client and here's what happens when I attempt to write.

randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$ > written_by_guest randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$ ls -l total 3404056 -rw------- 1 randy sysadmin 56776 2009-04-09 14:00 VBox.log -rw-r--r-- 1 randy sysadmin 3485696384 2009-04-09 14:05 written_by_guest randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$ ls -ls total 3404056

56 -rw------- 1 randy sysadmin 56776 2009-04-09 14:00 VBox.log

3404001 -rw-r--r-- 1 randy sysadmin 3485696384 2009-04-09 14:05 written_by_guest randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$

As you can see, it appears to have written a very large null filled file when it should have written a zero length file. When viewed from the underlying host, it appears that the file is long but empty (just one big hole). Unfortunately, from within the guest the hole is read as a string of nulls (which takes a long time).

hobbit$ ls -ls total 113

112 -rw------- 1 randy sysadmin 56776 Apr 9 14:00 VBox.log

1 -rw-r--r-- 1 randy sysadmin 3485696384 Apr 9 14:05 written_by_guest

hobbit$

If we write text into the file, it appears to be padded with nulls at the end.

randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$ echo hi > test2 randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$ ls -l test2 -rw-r--r-- 1 randy sysadmin 3485688192 2009-04-09 14:10 test2 randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$ od -c test2 0000000 h i \n \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 0000020 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 * C randy@indy:/vbox/Shared$

This seems to only occur when the file is written from an OpenSolaris guest. The same operation from a Solaris 10 guest seems to work properly. Must be a SunOS 5.11 thing.

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