From: grutz@jingojango.net
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 16:39:57 EDT
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. . . .
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