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In vmware Workstation
, what information about the host software and hardware is made available to the guest OS.
For the purposes of my application, I'm concerned about a process on the guest OS gaining information about the physical hardware where the host is running. This could include details such as serial numbers, MAC addresses, or anything that could identify physically computer being run.
Both the host and guest will be running Ubuntu Linux.
Edit: vmware-tools
will be installed on the guest
Edit 2: Adding bounty
I've done a lot of research on this question, and most answers have words like "shouldn't" in them. I need to know with some degree of certainty, that a vmware guest cannot see any of the following items (In that, if these things were available to the guest, it would be considered a massive security breach)
- any hardware serial numbers
- mac addresses of host network interfaces
- registration serial number of vmware software
- any files on the host operating system
The motivation for this question is that I need to run some highly untrusted software and I want to sandbox it away from any information that could reveal my identity. For instance, I assume this software will attempt to read my processors serial number and report it back to its creator, and I assume this could result in a trace back to my real world identity. Call this paranoid if you like. Part of my situation requires that vmware-tools is installed.