Can this VM be broken into by a hacker that owns the host?

[UlyssesOfEpirus]

A linux VM uses FDE, so to use it you have to type a passphrase at boot time.

Furthermore, a usb keyboard is connected directly to the VM so it does not appear in the hardware list of the host.

If the host gets owned, ie a hacker somehow manages to break into the host, how can they break into the above VM?

[wila]

Hello,

When your host gets compromised all bets are off.

Aka yes if your guest is running then it can be broken into if the host is compromised.

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Wil

[UlyssesOfEpirus]

Doesn't anybody have specifics how the hacker would do it in the above setup?

If I give you the root password to a public free VPS that I will have setup with vmware installed and a linux VM running in the VPS, how many here will manage to break into the VM described in the OP question?

[admin]

UlyssesOfEpirus wrote:

Doesn't anybody have specifics how the hacker would do it in the above setup?

If I give you the root password to a public free VPS that I will have setup with vmware installed and a linux VM running in the VPS, how many here will manage to break into the VM described in the OP question?

Would it suffice to produce a crash dump that could be examined by the Linux 'crash' utility?  Create a snapshot of the VM and feed the snapshot into vmss2core.