[Oisf-users] Can I reliably test the features of Suricata on a virtual machine?

[Peter Manev]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Vincent Fang <vincent.y.fang at gmail.com>wrote:

> My setup is the host machine running Windows 7, with VMPlayer 4.0.4 and
> the guest OS Fedora 17 where Suricata is running in. Does anyone know if I
> can expect all the features of Suricata to work just the same if I had them
> running on two actual separate machines where one generates traffic and the
> other examines all the traffic on the network?
>
> Or are there any special cases that I need to be aware of?
>
>
> Vince
>
> _______________________________________________
> Suricata IDS Users mailing list: oisf-users at openinfosecfoundation.org
> Site: http://suricata-ids.org | Support: http://suricata-ids.org/support/
> List: https://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/oisf-users
> OISF: http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/
>

my thoughts -
In terms of functionality - you can test most features (except
CUDA/Napatech/Myricom/DAG HW support and such).
In terms of speed - you are nowhere near of what you can accomplish on real
HW - but then it depends of how much traffic are you looking at....



-- 
Regards,
Peter Manev
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/pipermail/oisf-users/attachments/20130114/d21aaa69/attachment-0002.html>