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RE: VMWare and which linux distro?
From: Karmil Asgarally <kasgaral () emirates net ae>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:09:47 +0400
HI Question: Are u planning to install linux as a guest OS from which to initiate your pentest? If yes, then.... You might want to try a Fedora install as a vmware guest os. It's working excellent for me. However, I recently tested PHLAK which is a linux distro mainly meant for pentest and loaded with a lot of security tools. Installing PHLAK as a vmware guest does not even require drivers to be installed. With PHLAK, you basically have 2 options to run. It can be run as a live CD or you can dump the whole OS on a HDD (My setup is dump everything inside a vmware guest). Check out www.phlak.org Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: Maxime Rousseau [mailto:m.rousseau () cgi com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 01:16 To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: VMWare and which linux distro? Hi List, I think a good portion of you guys use a VMWare-Linux setup when doing pen-test (for many reasons). The question i would like to ask is, which linux distribution works best for this specific purpose ? Obviously you dont need a distribution with many fency Xwin features and preferably good networking tools built-in. I am uncertain about which would work best in this particular scenario and i really cant think of anyone better then you guys to give me insight. Thanks, -Maxime --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- VMWare and which linux distro? Maxime Rousseau (Jan 07)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Steve Kemp (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Christopher Downs (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? mike (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Eric Wilson (Jan 08)
- RE: VMWare and which linux distro? Karmil Asgarally (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? amine (Jan 08)
- RE: VMWare and which linux distro? Christoph Strizik (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Martin Mačok (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? R. DuFresne (Jan 09)
- RE: VMWare and which linux distro? Pete Herzog (Jan 18)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Roger A. Grimes (Jan 19)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Martin Mačok (Jan 19)
- VMWare and which linux distro? Maxime Rousseau (Jan 07)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? circut (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? Nathan R. Valentine (Jan 08)
- Re: VMWare and which linux distro? John Davis (Jan 08)