On 12/26/2010 04:34 PM, Rance Hall wrote: > 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. > I would suggest to read: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=33814&sid=c7bcedb2c62c0445532dc786f2fa106e <http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=33814&sid=c7bcedb2c62c0445532dc786f2fa106e>
> 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
