Running Slackware on a Hyper-V virtual machine
by dalacor from LinuxQuestions.org on (#53HV6)
I am about to sign up with a dedicated server hosting company where they will provide me with a dedicated server in their Data Centre.
Along with many of these providers, they don't provide a hardware firewall as standard. It would cost me around 50 a month for a hardware firewall which I don't feel is worthwhile.
Reading up on the subject some people are using the Software firewall on their Windows Servers (tightened up considerably of course) and while this in theory is sufficient, I don't have the same confidence in Windows Firewalls that I do in a Linux or dedicated firewall system.
So I am looking to setup Slackware in a VM to act as a firewall and Nat Forwarding system. It will basically only run IPtables and IP forwarding.
I have only found one topic about running Slackware in a VM and it appears that it can be done, but no information on the Internet regarding how reliable it is or whether there any issues to factor in for running Slackware or any Linux distro in a VM.
Any thoughts.
Along with many of these providers, they don't provide a hardware firewall as standard. It would cost me around 50 a month for a hardware firewall which I don't feel is worthwhile.
Reading up on the subject some people are using the Software firewall on their Windows Servers (tightened up considerably of course) and while this in theory is sufficient, I don't have the same confidence in Windows Firewalls that I do in a Linux or dedicated firewall system.
So I am looking to setup Slackware in a VM to act as a firewall and Nat Forwarding system. It will basically only run IPtables and IP forwarding.
I have only found one topic about running Slackware in a VM and it appears that it can be done, but no information on the Internet regarding how reliable it is or whether there any issues to factor in for running Slackware or any Linux distro in a VM.
Any thoughts.