I'm thinking of setting up a VMWare ESXi box. My main goal is to have it run OS's that I don't want to run a dedicated box for. For example, I may want to test out a software package that has an appliance version before installing it on another box.
My secondary goal is that I would like to have a Windows XP sandbox. Here the goal, and the one that I need feedback on, is to have a system to open those oftentimes questionable attachments that friends send. I have friends that oftentimes send very funny messages and attachments, however I don't necessarily want to open them on a main PC for fear that there is a keylogger, or what have you wrapped in there. My current solution is that I have a dedicated old PC that I just open several attachments at a time, then re-image. Seems like this process, which currently is done over the network, would be faster if I could install XP, save the running instance, and then just open a second copy of it or what have you locally.
Does anyone have thoughts on this approach? Has anyone done it?
I know I should never open attachments, however with a virus scanner, PC firewall, the dedicated box swapped to its own network segregated from the rest of the network, and the constant re-imaging, I'm not overly worried with something too bad happening. I just want to remove the re-imaging from the process to speed it up.
My secondary goal is that I would like to have a Windows XP sandbox. Here the goal, and the one that I need feedback on, is to have a system to open those oftentimes questionable attachments that friends send. I have friends that oftentimes send very funny messages and attachments, however I don't necessarily want to open them on a main PC for fear that there is a keylogger, or what have you wrapped in there. My current solution is that I have a dedicated old PC that I just open several attachments at a time, then re-image. Seems like this process, which currently is done over the network, would be faster if I could install XP, save the running instance, and then just open a second copy of it or what have you locally.
Does anyone have thoughts on this approach? Has anyone done it?
I know I should never open attachments, however with a virus scanner, PC firewall, the dedicated box swapped to its own network segregated from the rest of the network, and the constant re-imaging, I'm not overly worried with something too bad happening. I just want to remove the re-imaging from the process to speed it up.
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