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How to run an encrypted virtual machine?

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Mar 15, 202610846 views

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I wonder what is the best practice for storing the virtual machine encrypted. I tried putting the image it a TrueCrypt volume, but it doesn't work nicely: With the volume unmounted the VirtualBox complaints about missing VM disk, which is a bit annoying after a while. There's no way to quickly unmo…

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To add an up-to-date answer to this question, Oracle VM VirtualBox now supports hard disk encryption as of VirtualBox 5.0. You must first create the virtual machine and then encrypt the hard disk images attached to it, either through the GUI or the …

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