JanusVM on Parallels...?

[extensivegroup]

I'm intrigued by JanusVM under VMWare, the internet privacy application seen here:

http://janusvm.peertech.org/index.html

Curious to know if anyone has tried VMWare under a Parallels VM and been able to try this? Or does anyone know if there is a similar thing for Parallels that would use TOR, etc?

It would seem easy to compile and set up a similar thing, but I'm no developer.

 

[joem]

It sounds appealing, but you can't run a virtual machine on a virtual machine and still use the hardware virtual support since the hypervisor must run on the bare metal, and not on top of another hypervisor.

The functionality could certainly be made to work, but it sounds non-trivial (and I am a software developer).

 

[extensivegroup]

That's what I thought. I realize that VMWare for Mac might be out soon, but considering the degree of "external" machine procedures, I'm really wondering if the VMWare solution would even work on a Mac-based version of VMWare. So I did write one of the JanusVM developers who replied with the following advice. I'd be interested in helping out but am not a heavy "roll your own kernel" kind of developer:

As for Parallels, the key changes would be a kernel config for linux
that supports the Parallels networking device(s) and boot
configuration (lilo setup). I'm not familiar with which drivers would
be needed, and the Parallels site doesn't offer any clues.

If you have a Linux image on Parallels already then the following
information would be helpful:
- lsmod to see which network device is being used
- see what disks (hdX, sdX, etc) are supported and how they are booted

The last issue will be the PPTP VPN connection that needs to become
the default route when the VM is active. You may need OpenVPN to do
this if Mac doesn't support a scriptable PPTP VPN setup like Windows.

Hope that answers your questions!