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Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing?
From: grutz () jingojango net
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:39:57 -0700
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 05:59:47PM -0000, shannon () areawidetech com brazenly wrote:
I'm considering running Linux from my XP pro laptop under a VMWare (workstation edition) session. Anyone out there w/ experience using this setup that might have any tips / warnings / encouraging advice? This machine would be for pen testing, and is definitely beefy enough to handle the load, if this is a good solution. I'd be running Nessus, and doing probing w/ nmap.
The few times I've run NESSUS from within a VM session I found it took a little while longer to finish than running from within a native OS. Many factors could have been party to the slowdown but a co-worker experienced a similar problem with different hardware (IBM T30 vs Dell C400, both stock systems running WinXP Pro + latest VMWare at the time). Of course he was running FreeBSD and I was running Gentoo. Effectively there was no difference. Run the interface in bridged mode to bypass whatever funkyness XP will do (ICF returns SYN/ACK on all TCP/21 SYNs...grrr) and have at it. When you get more comfortable with it switch the OS purposes (Unix base, XP vm image). Unfortunately for pen testing many of the functions and applications for Windows testing require a full WinOS running. :( Even samba-tng can't do everything. . . . -- When little kids ask where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute things to tell him is "Probably because of something you did." - Jack Handy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Check out our Advanced Hacking course, learn to write exploits and attack security infrastructure. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/ethical_hacking_training.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? shannon (Sep 03)
- RE: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Chad (Sep 07)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Ben Timby (Sep 07)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Hans Porter (Sep 07)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Ivan Krstic (Sep 07)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? grutz (Sep 07)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? josh (Sep 07)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Marc (Sep 09)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Nilesh Burghate (Sep 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? mthompson (Sep 07)
- RE: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Jose Maria Lopez (Sep 07)
- RE: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Roman, David (Sep 07)
- RE: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? DeGennaro, Gregory (Sep 08)
- RE: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Bob Davies (Sep 08)
- Re: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Troy Frost (Sep 09)
- RE: Any caveats for linux under VMware, pen testing? Todd Towles (Sep 08)
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