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From the article: I think that It's very unlikely that Parallels will release any significant fixes or improvements for described mechanisms, becaus
by A1kmm 12y ago
From the article:
I think that It's very unlikely that Parallels will
release any significant fixes or improvements for
described mechanisms, because any reasonable fix will
break the easy way of opening Windows documents on Mac.
Why not a new checkbox: "Trust the VM to open documents and execute code on the host"?
If you don't check it, the ability of the guest to execute code on the host is disabled.
- jacquesm 12y agoWell, effectively that checkbox is already there, it just has the wrong name. So they don't need a new checkbox they just need to make it perfectly clear that the current checkbox makes some major changes to the security model that may not be entirely obvious to a naive user. I think given the fact that Parallels is aimed at single users trying to get some interop going that the issue is not that serious but if anybody wants to use Parallels in a more hostile environment they'd be very happy to see this announcement in case they missed the implications of that checkbox. Can you enable both the 'isolate windows from mac' and 'access windows folders from mac'? (You shouldn't be able to but it's not clear from the article if those options are mutually exclusive or not, it says 'in theory').
- gear54rus 12y agoAs someone who has some experience providing tech support for this, isolate windows from mac disables all kinds of host-guest interactions at once (if I remember correctly).