What's in your Virtual Machine lab?

[mattnels at gmail.com (mattnels)]

Kyle,

 

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.

 

On my desktop I run VirtualBox.

 

 

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Subject: [Pauldotcom] What's in your Virtual Machine lab?

 

Looking to put something together myself, but I'm not sure what I should
grab. 

Wondering what everyone else uses (for vulnerability testing). 

 

Does everyone have machines such as, XP unpatched/SP1/2/3, Vista, 7?

Linux distributions?  Should I stick in some older kernel, 2.4.x, older
versions of the current 2.6.x kernel?

 

What about software? Older version of IE and FireFox?

Older versions of services? Apache, MySQL, fileshare services?

 

What else should I be looking at?

 

 

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?

 

 

Kyle Osborn

 

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