Do you keep all the machines up to date and patched? Do you have a specific few that you don't?
Unfortunately, I don't have the resources of a beefy server, and I'm almost literally limited to my laptop (though fortunately have no issue with running multiple machines.) At some point I'm sure putting together a dedicated host wouldn't be too farfetched, I just don't have the reason yet. Kyle Osborn Sent from my mobile On Jul 19, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Michael Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
