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<[email protected]> 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: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kyle Osborn > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:22 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
