best way to run graphical BT4 from a server

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O have played around with VMware server on Ubuntu 9 recently it I ran into too much issues and overall performance is 
too slow. I currently run virtual box which seem to work fine, but on some occasions it keep lossing the mouse control 
or looking up (I did this on my laptop).

All in all I think Xen is more like ESX (build for servers), and virtual box is more like vmware workstation (great for 
testing and dev but not long term), so I would go with Xen.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:13:41 
To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List<pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] best way to run graphical BT4 from a server


2009/7/28 Dale Stirling <dale at puredistortion.com>:
> Xen will work for full virtulisation and run Backtrack (haven't tested).
>
> Xen delivers it Graphical interface over VNC. though you can set up TLS
> support for these connections.

I'll be only allowing access to it through a VPN but would probably
stick TLS on as well if available.

So, half expecting to start a war here, Xen vs VirtualBox for this
setup? I've personally ruled out vmware server just because it was
always sluggish compared to VirtualBox and I really didn't like the
browser thing they came up with.

Robin

> Dale
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/7/27 Nick Drage <nickd at funkyjesus.org>:
> > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Robin Wood wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm building a server that is going to go into a data centre and I
> > > > want to some kind of virtual machine software, probably either
> > > > VirtualBox or Xen, and in that I'd like to run BT4. What is my best
> > > > option to get a full BT4 X session back to my linux desktop?
> > >
> > > I can't speak for Xen, although I know someone to ask if no-one here can
> > > help... which I suspect is extremely unlikely ;)
> > >
> > > For Virtualbox, Look at VRDP, which I would expect you can port forward
> > > over SSH. ?The "--vrddport" and "--vrdpaddress" options should be used
> > > here.
> >
> > I like Virtualbox so would rather go with that so I'll have a look at
> > VRDP and see what it offers.
> >
> > > BTW, if you use VMWare Server instead watch your firewalling, IIRC
> > > it opens several listening ports whether you want it to or not.
> >
> > I tried it and didn't like it, didn't seem a patch on VirtualBox last
> > time I gave it a go.
> >
> > Robin
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