Portable virtual appliance?

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Tue, 10/23/2012 - 1:49pm
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Heychris
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Portable virtual appliance?

Does anyone know if their is a portable virtual appliance of an easy to use router like Tomato?  I know virtualbox will let you make a USB virtual appliance.  It'd be nice to have such a thing.

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Tue, 11/20/2012 - 12:51pm
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Heychris
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Barb,

Barb,

 

Thanks for the reply.  The concept is a rather interesting one.  I've worked with VMware in the past, but have to admit that I've never spent a ton of time in their platforms.  I've mainly used virtualbox because it's free and open.  It's hard for me to point to the specific advantage of VMware, but I  do feel it exists.  It seems as if you should be able to accomplish the same thing in virtualbox.

My use case here was needing to push traffic from multiple physical computers through a single software vpn tunnel in a PC I couldn't make much modification to.  For example, I coudln't simply enable internet sharing on the pc.  I was able to make it work with dd-wrt.  For reference:

1. disabled split tunning to force all traffic out the machine to the vpn

2. installed virtualbox

3. Downloaded dd-wrt from the x86 section of dd-wrt

4. converted to .vbi and installed in virtualbox

5. defined two network ports for dd-wrt with the inside natted to the pc and the outside bridged to the network card.

6. turned off DHCP on my LAN

7. dd-wrt then responds to dhcp through it's external port, creates it's own subnet.  Any machine that picks up that subnet gets routed to the internet through dd-wrt's external interface which is then pushed out the vpn interface.

 

I know it's probably  crazy overkill, but shockingly it worked.

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