I just need a VM for testing and evaluating certain software or platforms but I don’t like re-building it when the licenses expires.

Especially when trial software always expires in like 15 or 30 days ? 7 for a particular secure os and 15 for a particular secure platform.

Here’s what I found @ http://sanbarrow.com/.

I will need to add the following lines to my xxx.vmx, so everytime the VM boots up, it resets it’s date and time to my liking.

rtc.startTime = 1089395200
tools.syncTime = false
time.synchronize.continue = false
time.synchronize.restore = false
time.synchronize.resume.disk = false
time.synchronize.resume.memory = false
time.synchronize.shrink = false

Figuring the value for rtc clock ? A small application is available for download at the same site to calculate that value from dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss.

Basically it provides a layer of security and privacy for most TCP based applications, like IM, web browsing, etc, even DNS requests are passed through Tor. Most importantly, it provides you with access to sites that are filtered off by your ISP transparent proxies.

Tor allows your traffic to be re-route all around the internet anonymously via a complex network of virtual tunnels. An overview of Tor can be found here and a detailed FAQ on Onion Routers here.

My blog entry today is: how to enable your JanusVM to work in a corporate network whereby your firewall blocks most of the outgoing ports except http and https.

You can tell Tor to only use the ports that your firewall permits by adding the following to your torrc configuration file.

FascistFirewall 1

ReachableDirAddresses *:80
ReachableORAddresses *:443

Update:

The latest beta version of Tor uses the following instead of the above

ReachableAddresses *:80