What's in your Virtual Machine lab?

[kpo.mail.list at gmail.com (Kyle Osborn)]

Do you keep all the machines up to date and patched? Do you have a  
specific few that you don't?

Unfortunately, I don't have the resources of a beefy server, and I'm  
almost literally limited to my laptop (though fortunately have no  
issue with running multiple machines.)

At some point I'm sure putting together a dedicated host wouldn't be  
too farfetched, I just don't have the reason yet.


Kyle Osborn
Sent from my mobile

On Jul 19, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Michael Douglas <mick at pauldotcom.com>  
wrote:

> 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,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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