Re: [Rpcemu] Networking

In article <20170717134738.GF14778@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Theo Markettos <theo@markettos.org.uk> wrote:
Dave Symes wrote:
> > >>Has anyone yet worked out a way to get RPCEmu networking without
> > >>messing with the underlying networking setup?

[Snip]

> One slightly nasty thing you could try is installing RPCEmu inside a
> virtual machine (Windows, Linux, whatever you like) - eg install
> VirtualBox on the machine, create a new VM and install Windows into it,
> install RPCEmu inside the VM and configure RPCEmu networking. The VM
> will handle connecting RPCEmu to the outside world - it'll be harder to
> get into it from outside, but maybe you don't need that.

> It's possible to put the VM containing RPCEmu on a USB stick so you just
> need to install VirtualBox on the target machine, and it plays fairly
> nicely with the host networking. It's likely to be slower and eat
> battery, but maybe that's not so much of a problem.

> Getting more technical, I wonder if RPCEmu would run in a Docker
> container...?

> Theo

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not able or permitted to make any
changes to the shared machine... I do understand that position...

Dave

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Dave Triffid

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