The ESX should really support vix according to the diagram on vmwares VIX-blog.
I am still looking in to it, i think i might have made mistakes during
compilation in my first try.
Whether ESXi (which has recently been made available for free) supports VIX is
unspecified, and i don't know the exact difference between these to versions.
But ESXi is definitely interesting as a platform for honeypots now that its
free...
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:01:58 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [Capture-HPC] clients on ESX server
CC:
I looked at this a bit more. The ESXi doesnt seem to support the VIX API, but
rather a different API is provided.
So, in order to get this working, you need to do the following:
1. Ensure the ESXi API allows to revert VMs as well as start a prg within a
VMwareServer for an example.
2. You would have to extend the capture server to support a new virtual machine
type (this is generic to any virtual machine server...could even be XEN,
Virtual PC, etc)
- implement the interface VirtualMachineServer. You can check the
- add the new type to the VirtualMachineServerFactory (specify a new
type "vmware-esxi")
- modify the config.xml to use this new type "vmware-esxi" instead of
"vmware-server"
If anybody has gone through this exercise for any other virtual machine server
and wants to donate their code, I am happy to add it....
Christian
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Lasse Borup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Christian
I have now tried compiling against VIX 1.5, which according to
http://blogs.vmware.com/vix/ should work against esx server 3.5 update1.
Whereas the binary distribution formerly made network contact to the server
before generating errors, this recompiled version just gave the following error:
> VIX Error on connect in connect: One of the parameters was invalid
> E Disconnected
No network traffic was generated.
Unfortunately i don't have any more time to spend on the matter at this time,
perhaps i will look into it later.
Regards,
Lasse
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:24:21 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; capture-hpc@public.honeynet.org
Subject: Re: [Capture-HPC] clients on ESX server
CC:
Lasse, if the API are identical, no changes are needed. You just need to
recompile. (This is what you do if the VMware Server version changes).
Since I dont have ESX, I am only speculating. Try it and let us know how it
goes.
Christian
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Lasse Borup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Christian
But what changes would I need to make to the source before compiling? Or do i
need to check out a newer version from a repository?
Regards,
Lasse
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:39:33 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; capture-hpc@public.honeynet.org
Subject: Re: [Capture-HPC] clients on ESX server
CC:
Lasse, this might work, but you need to compile the capture server for sure.
Try that and let us know how it goes.
Christian
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Lasse Borup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
In the documentation for Capture-HPC it states that Vmware Server is needed for
the clients. But since Vmware Esx Server also supports the VIX api shouldn't it
be possible to run the clients on ESX?
I'm trying it out but have not been succesfull...
Best regards,
Lasse Borup
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