What's in your Virtual Machine lab?

[mick at pauldotcom.com (Michael Douglas)]

I've got Xen running on my Ubuntu server at home.

I have one "jumphost" guest with bridged networking that allows folks
to VPN into it via OpenVPN

I have the following guest OSs (I usually run only three or so at a time)
- Win XP unpatched
- Win XP SP 3 current
- Debian
- Ubuntu
- DSL
- TinyCore
- CentOS
- OpenSuse
- BuggyBank
- a debian box with matilldae
- Moth
- DVL


At work, I have a beefy ESX server with just about every OS that we're
going to run across.  It's a bit of a pain to keep all those guests
happy.  ;)





On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, mattnels<mattnels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kyle,
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> I use Citrix XenServer for my "permanent" infrastructure.? I've found it to
> be easier to build a solid virtual server that I can multiple systems on
> without breaking a sweat.? I found "supported" hardware much easier fo find
> for XenServer, as I built it from scratch with parts from a desktop I
> replaced. ???I have found I can run at least 4 virtual machines with my
> Intel Quad Core and 8Gb Memory.? ?They aren't power houses by any means but
> for testing they work great.
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> On my desktop I run VirtualBox.
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> From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
> [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of Kyle Osborn
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:22 PM
> To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
> Subject: [Pauldotcom] What's in your Virtual Machine lab?
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> Looking to put something together myself, but I'm not sure what I should
> grab.
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> Wondering what everyone else uses (for vulnerability testing).
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> Does everyone have machines such as, XP unpatched/SP1/2/3, Vista, 7?
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> Linux?distributions? ?Should I stick in some older kernel, 2.4.x, older
> versions of the current 2.6.x kernel?
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> What about software? Older version of IE and FireFox?
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> Older versions of services? Apache, MySQL, fileshare services?
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> What else should I be looking at?
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> I realize I may not be taking full advantage of virtualizing and what it has
> to offer, and seeing as how having a ton of computers (be it dual boot or
> not) is not an option, what do you guys do?
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> Kyle Osborn
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