Can a Windows virua "leak" out of a virtual machine?

[brucewagner]

Is there any way a copy of Windows, running in VirtualBox on Ubuntu Linux, could get a virus and then... Could such a virus affect anything?

[ronnielsen1]

It would affect your virtual machine windows, your linux side, no

[ronnielsen1]

edit out

[daimaru]

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roger "edit out" charlie bravo :)

[djyoung4]

thats a good way to find out what viruses do though.