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I have a bunch of virtual Windows machines in VirtualBox If I make a shared folder of the Ubuntu root folder, I will get access to both USB drives, as well as the user folder, etc from the VM's. I also want to have write access from the VM's. But is this dangerous? Or a little bit risky? I usually don't bother to install any antivirus or anything on the VM's. Could a virus on the VM potentially start messing with my Ubuntu system files?

Is it maybe better to have seperate shared folders? One of the user folder, one of media, etc?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.

Fiksdal
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Usually the purpose of a VM is to isolate a system from the host. If you're sharing the entire file system, I see not much profit in using a VM any more.
If guest and host OS are the same, just use the host. If they're different, probably a dual-boot setup would be better.

From the security aspect: as soon as you make the host disks or file systems accessible to the guest, malware on the guest can access and infect or destroy it as well.

Byte Commander
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