2010/11/11 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar>: > On 10/05/10 12:47, Toma9 Vavys wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to become helpful OpenBSD developer (pentester) one day, >> so I have a few questions. >> >> I am CompSci student at the moment. I consider myself as a white hat >> person and I really enjoy everything about security. It's a shame that >> we need to sleep sometimes, isn't it? >> >> Back to the main topic. I want to migrate to OpenBSD from ArchLinux. >> But I have these conditions. I travel a lot, so I need everything all >> in laptop(one). I am thinking about Windows 7 and OpenBSD dualboot >> because of my hardware support in Windows 7. I'd like to to use HDMI >> sometimes. So my questios are: >> >> 1) What is the best possible way how to setup my penetration lab? I >> used Virtualbox in Archlinux, but I am new to BDS so I want to ask you >> what is different here in virtualization. Is it better to test >> everything in Windows 7 via Virtualbox. Or is it better to test >> everything via Qemu in OpenBSD? Are there any restrictions? What is >> your pentest lab setup like? >> >> 2) I'd like to use disk encryption which prompts me for password >> at startup and then there will be 2 options for boot (Windows 7 or >> OpenBSD). How can I do this to keep OpenBSD totally safe from >> Windows 7? Can Windows 7 hurt my OpenBSD in any possible way? If yes, >> how can I prevent this? >> >> Thank you for your answers and patience. >> >> Toma9 Vavrys >> ---------------------------------- >> Website: http://blog.cleancode.cz/ >> > > This might help with full disc encryption: > - http://16s.us/OpenBSD/softraid.txt > - man softraid > - man bioctl > > Obviously, windows can't read anything. B I can, of course, write, or > delete you data. > > The best penetration testing is though two physical computers, to better > simulate real conditions. > OpenBSD doesn't run properly on VirtualBox (it does install on the > latest version), and I belive virtualization is not really supported. > > > -- > Hugo Osvaldo Barrera > >
I can confirm that OpenBSD doesn't always work as a virtual machine. So I would focus on using OpenBSD as the host and using some other OS as a client in QEMU.
