Re: Alt VMWare Solution for Pen Testing

["Kieran.Tully AT acm.org" <kieran.tully () gmail com>]

On 12 May 2005 20:03:44 -0000, Dana Morrow <dmorrow5 () satx rr com> wrote:

>     Is anyone aware of an alternate and/or opensource solution for VMWare, 
>     for the purpose of pen testing?

Microsoft's VirtualPC is a commercial alternative:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

I'm not aware of any free equivalents.

Bochs and QEMU will work, albeit slowly, as they emulate the host CPU.

If the target OS is Linux, faster options include 
User Mode Linux: http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net 
and Xen: http://xen.sf.net

Plex86 looked promising at one stage:
http://plex86.sourceforge.net

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