Hello,
Our company demands that our laptops run Symantec's PGP Whole Disk Encryption software and I want to know if I can do this safely within a VM.
I have already virtualised my work laptop into a .vmware file using the PC2MAC utility and it run up just fine on my MacBook Air. (I still can't get over how truly awesome this all is!) Anyway, when the Windows 7 VM boots I'm prompted to encrypt the "whole disk" using the PGP WDE software (as our sys admins have made this mandatory). At the moment I keep dismissing this prompt but in truth I'd like to do it - then I'd be totally complying with our IT policy so that if the MacBook was ever lost or stolen it'd be very hard to get anything off of. But, is this action a safe thing to do?
Has anybody tried PGP WDE within a Fusion 5 VM? I understand that it replace bits of the MBR and I really don't want to brick my MacBook. I'd hope that PGP WDE couldn't get outside of the .vmware file that the VM has and the that MBR is within that .vmware file and so this should be fine, but I am loathe to try without knowing whether this is a sensible/safe thing to attempt.
Your thoughts/ideas very welcome.
Andy