> Just an update on the popularity of the OpenBSD 3.8 VM image: > Since it was posted on Dec 19 (4 days ago), apache logs have shown 2826 > hits on the file with just over 277 gigs of traffic created by those > downloads. > Not bad for only a few days.
I hope this isn't too OT for this list, but... do you know if it is possible under VMWare to have the virtual system be the only one which talks to the real ether card, while having the hosted PC only communicate to the net by routing via the VM'd system? What I'm thinking is that we could set up an OpenBSD as a personal firewall to a (cough, spit) Windows machine, and channel all the IP for the Windows machine through that VM'd OpenBSD system. Currently I'm using an extra box under my desk for a BSD firewall but since my main PC is already running 3 emulated systems as my development environment (one 'clean' PC for programming, one Linux for a dev web server, and believe it or not one emulated Vax/VMS for legacy work) it would be really nice to throw the OBSD firewall under VMware as well and have everything in one box! (incidentally this is one of the nicest development environments I've had for some time. VMware is cool, but having a PC with 3 flat panel displays is pretty nice too!) Graham
