Pen-testing using Backtrack and De-ICE under VMWare Fusion

Haven’t had an entry in quite a while, but tonight’s work on getting a little pen test lab setup got me to document the process, before I forget what I did
So – objective: need to setup a virtual lab for pen-testing using Backtrack LiveCD as repository of penetration tools, and De-ICE LiveCDs as [...]

VMWare tools installation for Mandriva

I meant to write this post for a long time, but today my level of frustration having to carry out the process below, all over again (upgrade of vmware workstation to version 6.0.5 meant another version of tools to be installed to run my mandriva inside Vista) reached a point where I saved it – [...]

VM printing – Linux (host) & Windows (guest)

# lsof |grep lp (lp0)
- for VM guest (Windows) to print, on host run:
# rmmod lp
NOTE: may need to stop cups daemon on the host, first
- for Linux (host) to print:
# modprobe lp
# chown <user> /dev/parport0
# chgrp lp /dev/parport0