This is Dan's virtual playground. If you have been led here by accident, move on - there is nothing of interest here for the occasional visitor.
If you are a hacker, don't bother. This site contains only software which is freely available on the internet and no data of real users or a company. It is just a lab to try out things.
If you are a computer enthusiast, and interested in the steps to create your own lab, be sure to read the posts about the setup of this lab, they might contain some valuable tips for your lab.
Have fun!
When it comes to hosting a lab, there is one question which is very basic, very urgent and very obvious: can we do this in the cloud? It does not matter much, if the company you work for has a cloud-first attitude or it is your personal choice to prefer…
Read more →In the previous article, I wrote about the hardware, now it is time to introduce the hypervisor. This lab is hosted on Citrix XenServer, for free. Over the years, I tried many different hypervisor (exotic ones like Bochs or Virtuozzo), VMWare Workstation and Virtual Box, Virtual PC, Hyper-V and actually…
Read more →The complete lab is hosted on a rented server from www.hetzner.de, featuring: The server was in an auction, where machines (sometimes containing additional extras like a few harddrives more) are constantly dropping in price, getting cheaper and cheaper every day. But watch out - you might miss to get the…
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