Droping a VM during pentesting

[jim.halfpenny at gmail.com (Jim Halfpenny)]

2009/3/10 Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>

> I love it and wish I had time to build it.
>
> I've just done some googling on qemu on windows and found this from
> the olpc group on how to get it working:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Using_QEMU_on_Windows_XP
>
> Having not used qemu it may be really easy and I'm just pointing out
> something obvious!
>
> Something I did notice was this comment:
> "It is a 190MB download that will then use about 1.5G of your disk
> after it is unzipped and installed."
> If this is right then copying 1.5G off the thumbdrive onto a pc may
> draw attention on older machines with limited disk space but probably
> not on newer ones.
>
> Robin
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You can download the embedded version of Damn Small Linux including Qemu
(handy since I've never really used Qemu myself) which weights in at around
50 MB. This loads a Linux graphical desktop environment in well under a
minute on my laptop. I've done some messing around today, removed the X
desktop and added netcat, nmap, vnc and samba and the install comes to just
less than 40MB. This is plenty small enough to drop onto a victim PC.

Jim
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