Alexandre Takacs

Is anyone successful in running VC inside a VMware Workstation VM against an external USB Disk ? I manage to mount the disk in a Win11 VM (but not accessing it's content...) and completely stuck with Ubuntu 24 VM (mount process never ends). Curious to see if others have such a setup working. Fully patched guest and host OS, latest VC, USB3.1 compatibility pass through.

FWIW it should work in emulation mode (as far as mounting volumes). Haven't tested on your specific harware but have it working reasonably well in a Windows 11 VM in a M3 Mac

well you will need to give more details... what OS ? all files ?

Unfortunately the project has pretty much one lead developer who often disappears from the internet :/

Being able to mount a VC container (be it a file or a disk) would be a good start. Obviously boot compatibility would be nice but maybe you (we ?) could start with the basics

As others have mentioned there is no definitive answer to your question. Few pointers IMHO: * Who is the adversary ? Some hacker ? LEA ? Nation state ? * The longer the machine is shutdown the less potential RAM remanence. But it is very hardware specific. If you really want to know you'll have to experiment by yourself. * A leak of your key is much more probable from other sources (such a swap files, backups, keyboard sniffer or some side channel) than being exfiltrated from RAM. If you have really...

I for one also welcome news from Mounir ! I believe this is an important project and it simply can't rest on single person, however talented. Certainly not easy to find competent contributors (especially for free...) in this field but there muss be some way forward. Would be happy to contribute within my limited MacOS expertise. I think moving away from KEXT should be relatively high on the to do list...

Thanks for pointing me to that discussion, however depressing it is :/