On 12/22/05, Graham Toal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just an update on the popularity of the OpenBSD 3.8 VM image: > > Since it was posted on Dec 19 (4 days ago), apache logs have shown 2826 > > hits on the file with just over 277 gigs of traffic created by those > > downloads. > > Not bad for only a few days. > > I hope this isn't too OT for this list, but... > > do you know if it is possible under VMWare to have the > virtual system be the only one which talks to the real > ether card, while having the hosted PC only communicate > to the net by routing via the VM'd system? > > What I'm thinking is that we could set up an OpenBSD > as a personal firewall to a (cough, spit) Windows machine, > and channel all the IP for the Windows machine through > that VM'd OpenBSD system. Currently I'm using an > extra box under my desk for a BSD firewall but since my > main PC is already running 3 emulated systems as my > development environment (one 'clean' PC for programming, > one Linux for a dev web server, and believe it or not > one emulated Vax/VMS for legacy work) it would be really > nice to throw the OBSD firewall under VMware as well > and have everything in one box! > > (incidentally this is one of the nicest development > environments I've had for some time. VMware is cool, > but having a PC with 3 flat panel displays is pretty > nice too!) > I have a very similar setup going on, but not with that VMware player or whatever it is. I have my host machine with 3 network cards in it, only 1 of which has an IP on the host machine, the other two network cards are ip-less for the host, but virtuals use them with IPs, and the hosted machine routes through one of the virtual machines to actually get out to the Internet. I won't go into any further details on-list, as this is pretty OT, so email me privately if you need further explanation.
Jason
