The UI has this built in just do media manager On Apr 19, 2016 8:48 PM, "Brian Cluff" wrote: > Yup, you can do essentially that, you'll want to use the vboxmanage to set > or clear it immutable bit rather than just using the file system's > immutable bit since they aren't the same thing. The system's immutable > command will just cause virtualbox to throw an error that it can't write to > the hard drive. The virtualbox immutable command will signal virtualbox to > create a temporary snapshot that then gets thrown away every single load, > but the command to do it isn't too much more difficult than just setting or > clearing a file level immutable bit. > Sorry I can't look it up right now, I'm at Stammtisch and my laptop > doesn't have virtualbox installed. > > Brian Cluff > > On 04/19/2016 08:26 PM, Wayne D wrote: > >> Ya know, I got to thinking. Couldn't I simply revert to NON-IMMUTABLE, >> update, then IMMUTABLE again? It IS a flag is it not? >> >> chattr +i /path/to/filename >> >> >> On 04/19/2016 06:24 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: >> >>> Correct, but you have to ask yourself, do you really need updates for a >>> box that even if it gets infected can't hold onto an >>> infection between loads of the VM. >>> >>> That being said, getting something like cryptolocker would really suck, >>> so you might want to come up with a procedure so that the >>> machine gets updated periodically but goes right back to being locked >>> down, but if he's only using the system for strictly the bare >>> minimum, the likelihood of getting an infection is slim to none. >>> >>> Brian Cluff >>> >>> On 04/19/2016 05:04 PM, Wayne D wrote: >>> >>>> Just so (I) am clear on this: A VM setup this way cannot get winblows >>>> updates either... correct? It would literally be frozen in >>>> time. >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >