Ayoi’s

Ok, I think I did post something about qemu and the qemu manager at this post, but somehow thanks to my colleague Akram who introduced another virtual machine application that I believe could rival VMWare anytime. This application called SUN xVM Virtual Box.

For a start, this application is free and you can download it from here (not exactly here but the download link will take you to SUN website). The installation is straight forward and to be honest the interface is kind neat and more user friendly compared to vmware.

The only downside is on the networking setup. Not as frustrated as Qemu but not as easy as VMware. But still manageable and I guess you HAVE to read the help file in order to properly setup your virtual machine network. Anyway just like VMware, you can install any type of OS as the guest Operating System.

One thing that makes me hooked with this virtual machine application is compared to VMWare, my guest operating systems (I have FreeBSD 7.0 and Windows 2003 Server) performed pretty well. No sluggishness detected (unlike VMWare) even when I have both of the guest OSes running simultaneously. At least this virtual box managed to assist me on producing my 1st technical write up.

So for time being, I put my VMware on hold and definitely this virtual box will be my main simulation platform.

OK for the fbsd, I have enlightenment installed for fun.

And this is Windows 2003 Server with SP 2

And yes, you can view those guest operating systems in full screen mode.

And no sluggishness detected when I have both of the virtual machines running at the same time

I plan to have argos installed on a virtual machine to act as high interactive Honeypot. It is just for a start. I do plan to deploy a full scale honeynet but for time being let get familiar with honeypot deployment, functions, usages, configurations etc. Then I can start thinking on properly deploy these useful tools in the network and also to establish the work flow starting from deploying till to the analysis part.

Initially I plan to have argos installed on my FreeBSD VM but there are some minor or stupid problems and errors so I’ve decided to have linux installed to ease the argos installation process. (Yeah I am damn freaking lazy for troubleshooting). So I decided to use Centos 5 as the platform and then crap happened. It failed to detect my HDD. After trying for few times, I decided to give QEMU a shot instead. Maybe the Vmware posed some probs with Centos, I dunno.

After some simple googling, I found that there is QEMU for windows including the QEMU manager as well. And yes, instead of typing qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -boot a -fda floppy.img -hda harddisk.img -cdrom cdimage.iso at the command prompt, I just use the VMWARE like configuration interface (I told you that I am freaking lazy)

For time being the installation is going smoothly…

You can download QEMU Manager (it will install QEMU as well) here

Or if you are those 1337 guys then perhaps CLI is more for you. For windows just doanload the QEMU here

Ahh and of cause the accelerator here

Btw I’m using this site guides and howtos