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Hello all,<br />
Ive just started to experiment with VMWare for testing, and have a question. Is there anything I can do on the guest machine that could compromise the host machine? For example, if the guest became infected with a virus is there a chance that it could spread to the host given that physically its the same machine and HD?
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Hello all,
Ive just started to experiment with VMWare for testing, and have a question. Is there anything I can do on the guest machine that could compromise the host machine? For example, if the guest became infected with a virus is there a chance that it could spread to the host given that physically its the same machine and HD?

VMware and viruses etc

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.