Saturday, February 5, 2011

Virtual Testbed

So I've found it necessary to test IDS that's currently under development on multiple linux systems.. continuously.

So I will ofcourse be shamelessly shilling for VirtualBox, even though they're controlled by oracle now... mixed feelings aside, it still beats vmware for a desktop solution... and setting up snapshots of clean installs of various popular linux distributions.

So far I've got my little virtual network running CentOS, Debian, ubuntu, Fedora, and RHEL.. since we mostly support apt/yum systems so far.

Initial observations: CentOS and RHEL, obviously almost identical.. Debian, not that far off from CentOS, strangely... and everything works just like it should. Fedora and Ubuntu are a whole different world at times, they don't play by the same rules as their metaphorical parents and so far have been where I've spent the most time trying to get things to work.

Any others I should add to this test setup?


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