At 12:23 09/09/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I am thinking about deploying vmware on some systems that are connected
>to the internet and are running windows (vmware would be used for
>linux). I was wondering what are some of the security risks of this?
>If the machine is running linux and can surf the web (as I have been
>told it can) how does it obtain an ip? Will the services show up to the
>internet (rpc 111, telnet 23, etc?) Do I have to firewall them and if
>so is firewalling for that done in windows or through linux. These are
>individual users home machines so there is no firewall or edge router
>doing packet filtering. So basically I am wondering what are some of
>the risks remote exploits against vmware boxes running linux?
>
>If someone either knows the answer or can point me in the right
>direction I would really appreciate it.
>
>Thx
>
>Leon
>
>Public or Private responses welcome.
www.vmware.com is the answer...
all documentation is there...
there are 3 ways of setting the ethernet adapter... and in one of them
you'll have the "guest" machine in a subnet of the host...
vmware recently release version 3 beta with more netware feature enabling
you to have up to 8 ethernet adapter as I know...
do not forget that the permissions of the binary are:
(killer@p800)(/usr/bin) ls -l vmware
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 2665164 May 9 22:47 vmware
(killer@p800)(/usr/bin)
this is the worst part, vmware accesses almost all the hardware in the
machine and it usually hangs the linux host too...
besides this, for testing things, crashing guest systems, reproducing
software errors, etc.. it's the best! :)
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