It should work find with vmware, however nessus scans can take a long while
on bigger networks, you might want to use something besides a laptop =P, the
standard packages in linux distribs are sufficient for dual booting with
windows, also nessus could run on an old machine you've junked by now.
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 03:50 pm, Eric Zatko wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> First I want to thank everyone that passed along advice regarding free
> system hardening software. Nessus seems to be the undisputed choice, but
> there were a few other options and I will look into all of them.
>
> Secondly, I will need to put Unix/Linux on a machine to use Nessus so I'm
> looking for advice. First, are there advantages to putting it on my laptop?
> If so, any recommendations for dual-boot software? Next, has anyone used
> VMWare, and if so would it work in this application, or is there a better
> solution?
>
> I know there are a lot of questions here... so if you rather, just give me
> your best solution. Again, in a bureaucracy, free is always better.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Eric Zatko
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
