Is it possible to get a windows virus on linux which run on a virtual machine?

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Is it possible to get a windows virus on linux which run on a virtual machine?

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I'm wondering if someone uses virtual machine software like http://www.virtualbox.org/ which runs linux and other OSes on windows. Could they infect their windows machine if they are running linux in a VM running on windows.
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shouldn't be able to it
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