I was thinking of using VMware to learn the OSes' interaction over LAN. Is that a good idea? What drawbacks could I face? Can I use this to test the firewall applications and a testing platform? My machine is ABLE to run two OSes at a time.
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I was thinking of using VMware to learn the OSes' interaction over LAN. Is that a good idea? What drawbacks could I face? Can I use this to test the firewall applications and a testing platform? My machine is ABLE to run two OSes at a time.
I use VMWare all the time for tests. Having two machines is better is some ways, by VMWare can be a quick and easy way to set up a lab in a box.
Sorry to link whore:
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=s...b-on-the-cheap
I have problem connecting my wmware OS's to LAN.
I'm running XP and I have wmware on it.
There are 3 OS's on wmware (workstation 2000, 2003 server and backtrack2). They are connected with Bridged: Connected directly to physical network. All 3 OS's are in same network team called SecurityLab.
Than when I run Look@LAN on my host XP, it doesn't find nothing alse than this host XP. And if I try findsmb or netdiscover on BT2, there is the same problem, it can't find any other OS. :confused:
Do you perhaps know how to fix this ?
Can the VMs ping out? It sounds like it's not enumerating the vswitch. What about using NMAP to ping the address range of the VMs?
And Jockey, I highly recommend VMware (albeit I'm biased :D) Workstation 6 and Server are both good options. Workstation tends to be more flexible when it comes to a variety of hardware and is designed for development and testing. Server is the lower-end enterprise model (and free!)
Thanks to Irongeek and MsMittens for your replies.
@R3fug33 : Well, have you checked the activity of a (suspctedly active) firewall? A firewall might be stopping it all. I think your HOST Windows might be blocking them!?? Well, thats just a thought. I faced the same problem when I accidently disallowed the connection between VMs when the firewall pop up came in. I had to remove the block permissions manually to get the thing working. Hope that works for you too.
By the way, I do not have money good enough to run the new VMware. The older version (5.5.4) was what I got from one of my friends. Well, I am not a professional tester.... just a learner. So can I start away with the VMware server or should I spend money on the Vmware Workstation itself?
I'd say start with VMWare server, but if it is too much for your box use VMWare player and 3rd party tools to make your VMs
@jockey0109 Check out Virtual Iron. If you have to purchase software it is quite a bit cheaper than VMware Workstation.
@R3fug33 I think the last time I had multiple guest machines tied to a single VMware host I used NAT instead of bridged. I solved this kind of issue by picking up a Quad NIC and binding each guest to a physical port on the nic.
Ok I think I will do.Quote:
@jockey0109 Check out Virtual Iron. If you have to purchase software it is quite a bit cheaper than VMware Workstation.
wow....
anyways vmware server is free maybe that would work.
O.K. now I fixed it. Now is running fine :)
Thanks for help.
May I know 'HOW'? Actually I just wanted to know 'what to do if the same thing happens to me'?Quote:
Originally Posted by R3fug33
I think vmware is a nice choice, I've got vmware fusion beta 4 running on my macbook (running many Oses: netware 6.5, solaris 9, solaris 10,Red hat linux enterprise 5 server,Suse linux enterprise 10 server,debian linux 4.0,OpenBSD 4.1 server, windows 2003 and back track linux).
The best thing is I can use backtrack linux using usb wireless card to do some penetration testing using aircrack,etc...
Nice when I get my macbook a the end of the summer I def want to get fusion.