Go open source in your virtual server platform with Proxmox-VE. This walkthrough will go show the steps of setting up a Proxmox server that will allow you to run virtual machines and manage with a webclient.

Virtualization of physical versions of something such as a server or router is a way to minimize rack space and power consumption. So something like Proxmox will give those benefits and also the ability to do easy backups & load balancing. This also provided the work space for things like creating a virtual test network for hacking; running services such as home media servers. Proxmox VE supports OpenVZ which is a OS level virtualization via Linux kernel Isolated containers; this allows for performance speeds close to native running on its own hardware. It also has full virtualization KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine Supports which will also give the machine complete hardware and kernel independence from the Linux host machine allowing for running OSes like windows. Some of the hardware requirements for Proxmox VE 64-bit Intel or AMD processors Intel-VT or AMD-V for KVM 1+ GB RAM, 4+ GB or better of hard drive storage (it does support RAIDS) and any network interface cards supported by Debian Lenny 64bit

Installation

You can install on top of Debian Lenny but it’s easier to do a fresh install Download, burn and boot from ISO.

Darren checks out Ampache, a powerful open source streaming media solution perfect for your Linux home server. Jason answers your Boxee questions and Shannon joins the round table for a discussion on jailbreaking and USB wireless adapters for virtual machines.

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Ampache – for the love of music
Darren walks you though setting up Ampache on Ubuntu and is pleased with the results.

Jason answers your Boxee questions
Jason answers some of the questions he has received regarding his homebrew boxee box and software development.

Domain.com – Freeze Pop Diet Hijacking!
Our friend Evil Server hijacks Darren’s FreezePopDiet.com domain, and, well, you’ll see…

GoToMeeting Roundtable – USB Wireless Virtual Machines
Darren is joined by Shannon and Jason to discuss iPhone jailbreaking and USB Wireless adapters for virtual machines

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A Virtual Appliance can be though of as a software image containing a supporting stack designed to run inside a virtual machine. A quick look at vmware’s virtual appliance directory shows that there are hundreds of applications that can be quickly and easily deployed. In this segment I take the Dimdim open source virtual appliance, designed for vmware, and deploy it with VirtualBox (just becasue I can).

Last week the news was a buzz about Google’s Chrome OS, and while we typically don’t cover tech news on the show I freaked out in my usual open source, cloud lovin’ Linux-y sorta way. So this week we’re taking a first look at Chromium OS — the FOSS project that Chrome is built on.

Joe Switch writes in to ask what the deal is with Virtual Routers and other such untangable networks. Matt has the answer. The way I understand it your more high end (read: expensive) Cisco and Juniper routers have virtual routers built in — much like you might have a virtual interface like eth0:1 in Linux — to manage VLANS, IP subnets and such.

Matt goes on to explain that in the vSphere product by VMware you can use the APIs to write, basically, a software based switch to compliment your existing deployments. Check out the Cisco Nexus 1000V. It’s a software implementation of a Cisco Nexus switch. I’d love to get my hands on it but at nearly $1000/year I’ll find something open source. Speaking of which, we’ve been meaning to play with a Cisco virtual network application but are in need of an ISO. If you’re privy to an open source alternative or can help out drop us a line.

Cheap mod chips plus free dev tools equals hello world on the Nintendo DS! Jason Appelbaum joins us to geek out about code up the dual screen’d programmers playground that is NDS homebrew. Matt has answers to your questions about Virtual Routers, Paul comes out from behind the camera to school us on SSH Tunneling for the Mac, and Darren’s featuring some pretty Python & PHP to tunnel cross platform.

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Title: Virtual Routers?
Time: 3:20
Keywords: virtual router, virtual machine, vm, virtualization, vmware, virtualbox, cisco, nexus, nexus switch, cisco nexus, nexus 1000v, nexus 1000

Joe Switch writes in to ask what the deal is with Virtual Routers and other such untangable networks. Matt has the answer. The way I understand it your more high end (read: expensive) Cisco and Juniper routers have virtual routers built in — much like you might have a virtual interface like eth0:1 in Linux — to manage VLANS, IP subnets and such.

Matt goes on to explain that in the vSphere product by VMware you can use the APIs to write, basically, a software based switch to compliment your existing deployments. Check out the Cisco Nexus 1000V. It’s a software implementation of a Cisco Nexus switch. I’d love to get my hands on it but at nearly $1000/year I’ll find something open source. Speaking of which, we’ve been meaning to play with a Cisco virtual network application but are in need of an ISO. If you’re privy to an open source alternative or can help out drop us a line.

Make your own Nintendo DS Games for free!

If it begins with a #include and ends in a semi-colon our friend Jason Appelbaum is all over it. This week he’s in studio covering a subject near and dear to our hearts — Nintendo DS Homebrew.

Let’s face it, the Nintendo DS is a happy little platform full of hacking potential. And with a well established homebrew community it’s the perfect device to start your next weekend project with. Jason takes you from Homebrew 101, including carts and roms, to getting the Dev tools and building your first Hello World app.

For more see JasonAppelbaum.com or email jason@hak5.org

Mac tunneling the free and easy way

Paul can’t hide behind the camera forever, and this week we’re pleased to have him break down the free and easy way to SSH Tunnel on a mac. After Hak5 viewer Lavi wrote in about SSHTunnel 1.6 Paul was happy to check out the program. Thanks for sending in your freeware picks!

SSH Tunneling the cross-platform way with Python and PHP

Another great bit of feedback from the SSH Tunneling segment in episode 614 was from Jan-Marten in The Netherlands. His Hak5 inspired cross-platform Python and PHP scripts, available from his blog johmanx.com allow you to easily configure and save SSH tunneling options. Awesome code Jan-Marteen, thanks for sending it in!

Of course if you have feedback for the show, code you’d like to send by, tips on legally acquiring a cisco IOS, freeware you want to let us know about, questions, or criticisms just write us: feedback@hak5.org

And don’t forget to check out the Hak5 Store for our holiday sale on all new Hak5 T-Shirts, hacked gadgets, pineapples, monkeys and more.

Nothing makes us happier than hacking an inexpensive gadget to run just about any Linux app — and that’s exactly what Shannon Morse is doing this week on Hak5. We’re also joined by Jason Appelbaum for a little Google Voice SMS scripting with Java or PHP libraries, and Darren Kitchen has gone googly for Chrome OS. Prepare the popcorn it’s technolust time!

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First look at Google Chromium OS

Last week the news was a buzz about Google’s Chrome OS, and while we typically don’t cover tech news on the show I freaked out in my usual open source, cloud lovin’ Linux-y sorta way. So this week we’re taking a first look at Chromium OS — the FOSS project that Chrome is built on.

–Darren Kitchen

Google Voice SMS Scripting with Java and J-Bomb

Google voice is a powerful multi-use tool that could be used as a free SMS aggregator, that could be leveraged for anything you could come up that would fit into 140 charters, like a text based adventure game or a sms bbs. There are several different libraries that people have developed to take full advantage of Google voice’s features: Java Libary, PHP Libary, or for those who just want the raw unofficial API. The sky is the limit with this, the code that was showed is up on the forums, so head over there and get those idea up there. Source Code

–Jason Appelbaum

PS: Doesn’t J-Bomb sound like some sort of netbeans module?

Unlocking Linux on the Zipit Z2, a $50 hacktop

The Zipit Z2 is an inexpensive wireless handheld instant messaging device by Zipit Wireless. It sports WiFi, a color 320×240 display, backlit keyboard and similar CPU and memory to that of a last-gen smart phone.

It’s also a prime candidate for some hacking. In this segment we’ll unlock the device and install Debian, X, and Pidgin. The Z2 also has potential for emulators, video streaming and more.

Rather than repeat what has already been well documented we’ll link to these helpful Zipit Z2 hacking resources:

• Hunter David’s blog – A bunch of well documented ZipIt hacks, many with videos
• The Zipit Wireless Yahoo Group
• Quantum Lime’s step by step Zipit Z2 Debian guide

Got a restrictive firewall blocking sites at school or work? Evade ‘em easily with your own private web proxy. Want to securely tunnel any port through an SSH session? Darren’s got just the trick. Wondering how to properly use Asleap to crack MS-CHAPv2 PPTP VPN handshakes & LM Hashes? Interested in trying out neat free enterprise applications but don’t feel like spending hours in a terminal? Try deploying a virtual appliance in minutes, the free and open source way.

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Port Tunneling and Socks5 Proxies with a Secure Shell (SSH)

SSH Tunneling isn’t new to the show, we’ve done it before over DNS or in conjunction with VNC. Today we’re looking at two SSH tricks for tunneling just about any traffic.

First up, ssh -D. The -D option specified a local "e;Dynamic"e; application-level port forwarding. Any connection made to the specified port goes through the tunnel as a SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 proxy. Perfect for secure web browsing as demonstrated with Firefox in this segment.

Usage

ssh -D 8080 user@server

Second, ssh -L. The -L option enables port forwarding. Using this option tells the SSH client to listen to traffic on a specified port and forward it along through the tunnel. The server receives this data and points it to the specified destination, whether it be on the destination network or otherwise. In our example we use the -L option to securely connect to an open IRC server.

Usage

ssh user@server -L local-listen-port:destination-ip:destination-port

For more SSH-fu check out the ssh man page or Linux Journal’s interesting series on 101 uses of openssh.

Bypassing site-blocking firewalls with your own private web proxy

The age old scheme for bypassing restrictive firewalls, like those that block sites at school or work, has been to use a web proxy. Of course this is followed up by the network administrator blocking all mainstream proxies. But what if you could run your own? Well, you can and it’s really freaking easy. In this segment Darren demonstrates PHProxy

Cracking MS-CHAPv2 PPTP VPN handshakes & LM Hashes Followup from 6×12

On episode 612 we demonstrated a tool, asleap, designed to crack MS-CHAPv2, the authentication protocol commonly found in Microsoft PPTP VPNs. The final demo was unsuccessful due to the encoding of the handshake and response sniffed by Wireshark. Viewer Sc00bz was kind enough to post a PHP script that accepts the challenge, response and username and provides you with the proper asleap command to run with the properly encoded byte sequences. Sc00bz has well documented the code, which lives now on this Hak5 forum thread. Thanks Sc00bz!

Deploying Virtual Appliances in minutes the open source way

A Virtual Appliance can be though of as a software image containing a supporting stack designed to run inside a virtual machine. A quick look at vmware’s virtual appliance directory shows that there are hundreds of applications that can be quickly and easily deployed. In this segment I take the Dimdim open source virtual appliance, designed for vmware, and deploy it with VirtualBox (just becasue I can).