RE: Alt VMWare Solution for Pen Testing

["Burton Strauss" <BStrauss3 () comcast net>]

They don't support it as in they don't offer fee-based support.  

There's a lot of info on what runs and how to make things work at
http://vpc.visualwin.com/.  And in MS' weblogs and knowledge base.

It sometimes takes small gyrations - some kernels have critical virtualized
devices broken (*notably Fedora Core 2).  But ultimately EVERY Linux I've
thrown at it works fine.  DSL, Knoppix, RedHat, Fedora, Slack, Debian,
Gentoo, Ubuntu, etc. etc. etc.  2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

Oh, and Solaris 10 x86, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.


-----Burton

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raoul Armfield [mailto:armfield () amnh org] 
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:47 PM
To: Kieran.Tully () acm org
Cc: Dana Morrow; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Alt VMWare Solution for Pen Testing

Kieran.Tully AT acm.org wrote:
> On 12 May 2005 20:03:44 -0000, Dana Morrow <dmorrow5 () satx rr com> wrote:
>
>
> >    Is anyone aware of an alternate and/or opensource solution for VMWare,

> >    for the purpose of pen testing?
>
>
> Microsoft's VirtualPC is a commercial alternative:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

However MS VirtualPC does not support Linux as I understand it.  Not to say
you can not install Linux.


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Raoul