What virtual machines have you installed?

VMWare Worksation 7 with currently Win7x64 Ultimate and XP Pro, used mainly for testing things.

 

My setup is the same minus Windows XP. How much memory did you allocated for Win7x64 Ultimate?

 

1024 MB. I only have 2 GB RAM.

 

Oh ok just wondering.

 

I like to give them as much possible RAM as I can to make up for the increased disk IO of two operating systems. More RAM on the virtual machine means less superflous IO.

 

Didn't you just delete you VMs? LOL.

 

I put 1024 MB with Aero off. Still works with Aero on, but that just wastes resources and looks less unique.

 

Aero doesn't matter to me in VM, so thats fine. I turn it off anyways

 

pclinux and puppy

 

In general that's how I like to do it. I currently have no VMs.

 

i used about 35 diffrent linux distros in Vbox but installed none

last was window xp windows 7 and scintific linux on fedora 13

but since i formate fedora and switch i have none right now just run live iso's

 

Only Windows XP at the moment, I use it for testing secondary to Sandboxie

 

Switched to VirtualBox after VMware error. Loving the added functionality, and lower resource usage.

 

It's been a while:

 

Whittled mine down a bit to just what I really use.

Same Host.

Guest:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows XP w/SP3
Slackware64 13.37
eComStation 1.1
Snow Leopard OS X 10.6

 

Host: Windows 7 x64

VMs:
Backtrack
Mint
Ubuntu
Windows 7 x64 bit (Used as my testing enviroment before I move to host)
Windows 8 dev build

 

J_L- that's a pretty list!

I've got a bunch of stuff in Virtualbox on Linux & Win 7 hosts including:
ubuntu
xubuntu
backtrack
Windows XP
Debian
SIFT
I guess metasploitable counts, too.
I'll be installing some kind of linux server in a VM soon.

I can only run my Win XP VM on the Linux host. It refuses to run on the Windows host. Baffling and annoying. Anyone had similar issues?

 

Forgot to ask in my last post. How does Mac behave in the virtual machine?

 

Thanks, just added MenuetOS which is a live floppy independent project. Going to try Windows 8 again once a more stable beta version is released.

What is SIFT?

That's weird, I never had such problems. So the OS doesn't boot?

It's a slow ram and disk hog, with nothing much notable in it. Also, there are legal issues if you don't install it on a Mac machine.

 

SANS Investigate Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Workstation Version 2.1

BrandiCandi do you have an IT centric career or are a hobbyist?

How much resources did you assign to the Mac vm in question?

 

What's the problem my friend? Why are you crying? Can I help?

Thanks. .

 

SIFT is a forensics toolkit.

Nope, I get an error before it boots. I can share all the linux-based VMs between platforms but not windows VMs.

 

Well, no one has agreed to pay me for my services yet...
Are you hiring?

 

Ah, another one I haven't heard of before. Thanks.

1024 and 2048 MB. Still laggy Snow Leopard, while Leopard is a bit better. Can't imagine how bloated Lion will be.

Never knew.

Must be VirtualBox issue, or system one. Have you tried re-installing?

 

In reference to my running "Snow Leopard OS X 10.6" on Slackware64

Well... on a Mac Pro, under Lion, it runs well, I let it have 4G of memory.

cough... cough... on a PC (violates the license agreement, since it's not a "Apple-labeled computer") it behaves fairly well, again I give it 4G of memory to utilize. Boot up time is quick, programs run just fine. There are problems, can't update it to 10.6.8, that breaks it. Shutdown, reboot requires a manual turn off of the VM after it stops. It's mostly one of those just because I can sort of things.