Thank you Nate. That is quite informative. In my case there is no need to share files over a network, though some data may be required to be stored in the local machine.
Trips On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 6:27 PM Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > * On 2020 27 Jun 05:48 -0500, manish tripathi wrote: > > Thank you for the responses. I was looking for a general purpose > > solution...I can safely assume that VM soln may mostly work, while the > same > > may not be guaranteed with use of WINE. > > IME, Qemu has various issues with Windows guests, such things as the > mouse cursor not being able to go to certain desktop edges after a time > of running. I found VirtualBox was much better suited for Windows > guests but VB is not a part of Buster or Bullseye in the main > repositories so I had to install the packages made available by Lucas > Nussbaum for Buster: https://people.debian.org/~lucas/virtualbox-buster/ > > > Can one also explain about the malware that may impact my Linux/Buster, > in > > case I use a VM for running my Windows app and what can I do to minimise > > such impact. > > Someone may have better information, but it seems to me that the VM is > rather well sandboxed whether Qemu or VB. If there are shared folders > then malware could have access to those files and the network. > Certainly, anything/everything in the VM could be compromised. > VirtualBox has the feature of snapshots so that a VM could be rolled > back to a known (suspected?) good state. > > - Nate > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Web: https://www.n0nb.us > Projects: https://github.com/N0NB > GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 > >
