[olug] free* VMWare player

[Rob Townley]

A buddy of mine who should definitely be on the OLUG says QEMU and
VMWare are the best of both worlds.  Here is the scenario:

1.) Use the free speech QEMU.org to create a VMWare image
     (if you try QEMU, make sure to to use kQEMU accelerator for best
performance)
2.) Play it using the free beer VMWare player.

On 2/2/06, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically there's nothing that can save you if your host OS is the
> victim of a key logger.  However, that being said, if the guest OS is
> compromised (by say a worm that installs a keylogger) your host OS is
> still clean, and you can revert the guest OS to the start.
>
> For my money VMware is one of the best product out there.  It's
> invaluable at work for testing software.
>
> Bill
>
> On 2/1/06, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/1/06, Hurley Rod <RHurley at tmvgas.com> wrote:
> > > The OS on the the virtual machine has a completely different
> > > address/path/location.  It is just one big folder of goodies. Viruses
> > > treat the virtual machines as separate machines.  They have different
> > > macs, IP's, system files and even have their own dedicated drivers.
> >
> > However, a key stroke logging program on the host machine is still
> > going to be able to record keystrokes and screenshots entered into one
> > of the virtual machines.
>