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    VMware a nice choice?

    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 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.

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    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.

    Do you perhaps know how to fix this ?

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    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 ) 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!)
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    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?
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    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

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    Virtual Iron?

    @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.

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    @jockey0109 Check out Virtual Iron. If you have to purchase software it is quite a bit cheaper than VMware Workstation.
    Ok I think I will do.
    Last edited by jockey0109; October 14th, 2007 at 07:37 PM.
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    wow....

    anyways vmware server is free maybe that would work.

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    O.K. now I fixed it. Now is running fine
    Thanks for help.

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