School Guardian

[amber]

Hi,

 

Hope someone can help me i am currently wanting to use School Guardian and i am not sure if i can use it as a guest under Vmware what kind of memory and processor etc would i need for about 20 pupils?

[dhicks]

i am currently wanting to use School Guardian and i am not sure if i can use it as a guest under Vmware what kind of memory and processor etc would i need for about 20 pupils?

 

When I spoke to Smoothwall's sales staff on the phone last year they assured me it would work under VMWare and Xen. I ran it under Xen, where it worked fine (just remember to assign a static MAC address to any virtual network cards). Check the specifications given on Smoothwall's site for memory requirements and so on, or give them a ring - in particular, remember you need a fair bit of disk space (was it 200GB?) to keep a decent amount of logs.

[amber]

Thanks for the reply i have looked on the website cant see any referance with regards to what is recomended for about 20 pupils thanks for the 200gb drive but am still not sure of what processor or memory required that would do the job.

[tom_newton]

Amber, shouldn't need anything too flash for 20 pupils - go for at least 2Gb of RAM, but 50-100Gb of HD space is fine, I don't envisage a lot of logs from those 20 pupils. 2 processor cores, and you should be ok.