On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Rance Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm replying to my own message to summarize the replies I've received and ask some follow up questions. I'm running VBox 4.0 on a Win 7 64 bit host with 4 GB ram and a Dual Core AMD 2.2 Ghz processor. I can only run about 4 VM's at a time due to the memory restriction as it really bogs down the host system if the VMs are GUI based -- I can do better for CLI based guests. Looks like the basic consensus is to run a Guest OS and manipulate that to create the faults I want to simulate. VDE looks to have all the basic tools I need to simulate the network, but I have a problem understanding how to use it to simulate what I want. (learning curve and all) Several of you wanted to know what kind of faults I wanted to simulate. VDE can simulate cable failures and all sorts of other network related issues so its about 90% of what I wanted to accomplish. About the only faults I can not simulate (to my knowledge) with VDE is something that a Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention System would trigger on or a virus infection. Here is my basic first questions: VDE2 was available as a package to install for my UBUNTU guest OS, but I don't understand yet how to make other VM's connect to the virtual network created by VDE in UBUNTU. Its not recommended to run nested vm tools so I don't think running QEMU on my UBUNTU guest is a great idea. Am I wrong here? or is there a better way to do what I want? I don't see how to connect a VBox guest to the virtual network created by VDE especially since you cant run VDE on Windows. Rance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
