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Would you use a firewall on a VirtualBox XP install?

technically, redundant, but you never know, b/c the VBox app may be set to always allow everything in your base OS firewall, so....
 
technically you should keep your use to min and not use xp mode for anything you can do in the os that you are running it on. But yes, being it is a full on os with some connection to the main os you should use firewalls and av. Basically a vm is not protected by the host and there could be a potential to get to the host via the vm.
 
I don't. But I set up snapshots so if anything goes wrong in the VM I just restore. Man I love that. :)
 
It's sort of redundant but a good install of comodo is well worth it if that box is connecting to the internet.

Xp vm and xp mode not really the same thing, but even in xp mode fw+av
 
Yup - seeing as it is full XP in VBox and seeing as XP has little to no protection natively, and finally seeing as VBox / VMWare / other vm software may, in fact, open a wide open tunnel through your firewall, screw redundancy and protect that virtualized instance of XP.
 
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