The BrazilFW Firewall_Router is secure enough, but do you really want to use a floppy drive for your firewall? I think the DD-WRT might be better, get a 64MB or larger Compact Flash card and an IDE to CF adapter, and follow the instructions here, although you could use an old hard drive instead of the CF card and adapter.
Ubuntu is so last century, besides if its more than a year old you are missing out on the latest features. .. Try Linux Mint, the XFCE has a faster GUI, but if you're putting it on a machine less than 7 years old you can go with whatever. Sounds like you want the 64 bit version, BTW since you need that to run 64bit VMs.
As for VM I know that it can be done, and I believe you can even convert MS VM images to run under a Linux VM, but I haven't played with it yet. Anyways there is LOTS of help out there from the Linux crowd.
If you're using DD-WRT, you don't need to setup your Linux/VM box to do firewall.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/ is one of the best resources for all things Linux, you might consider signing up a free account there.
No comments:
Post a Comment