To Tux or not to Tux

[Stephen Partington]

The UI has this built in just do media manager
On Apr 19, 2016 8:48 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> 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.
>>>>
>>>
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