VMware Server with Monowall
If you use the regular Monowall build on the VMware site, you'll notice one shortcoming, the vlance driver. :)
If you'd like to modify that image yourself see this page:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=35543&tstart=0
At the bottom, there is a pre-built image to use
http://www.xs4all.nl/~brugh/
Use that one. :) Uuuuuseeee it!
With the old one I had random and frequent monowall hangs that could only be fixed with a soft reset of monowall from the console.
You will want to disable the Host OS screensaver (This shouldn't cause a security issue because people should not be staying logged in anyway right?) if your using a hosted product. I've found that when I use Server in conjunction with UltraVNC, UltraVNC spikes to 50-60% CPU at times, so I've turned that off. You can turn it on and off using RPC calls from the windows Services widget, so it's not much of an inconvience having to turn it back on.
The vmxnet driver has yielded some great uptimes for me, in the order of weeks so far, the only time I've had to reset was today (After about 2 months of service), I'm not sure exactly what happened (and I'm not really interested in the root cause, I'm happy with knowing that it's working with a simple reset) but the web interface became unresponsive, after I reset mono, the webgui came back up (I wish they had an SSH command line plugin. maybe there is and I just haven't googled it) and then I had to reset my DSL modem, after that everything is working. Kind of odd that I needed to reset both however. Meh. :) 5 minutes of my day spent to have internet, I'll take it. :)
If you'd like to modify that image yourself see this page:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=35543&tstart=0
At the bottom, there is a pre-built image to use
http://www.xs4all.nl/~brugh/
Use that one. :) Uuuuuseeee it!
With the old one I had random and frequent monowall hangs that could only be fixed with a soft reset of monowall from the console.
You will want to disable the Host OS screensaver (This shouldn't cause a security issue because people should not be staying logged in anyway right?) if your using a hosted product. I've found that when I use Server in conjunction with UltraVNC, UltraVNC spikes to 50-60% CPU at times, so I've turned that off. You can turn it on and off using RPC calls from the windows Services widget, so it's not much of an inconvience having to turn it back on.
The vmxnet driver has yielded some great uptimes for me, in the order of weeks so far, the only time I've had to reset was today (After about 2 months of service), I'm not sure exactly what happened (and I'm not really interested in the root cause, I'm happy with knowing that it's working with a simple reset) but the web interface became unresponsive, after I reset mono, the webgui came back up (I wish they had an SSH command line plugin. maybe there is and I just haven't googled it) and then I had to reset my DSL modem, after that everything is working. Kind of odd that I needed to reset both however. Meh. :) 5 minutes of my day spent to have internet, I'll take it. :)
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