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Virtual Machine
About
PBot can interact with a virtual machine to safely execute arbitrary user-submitted system commands and code.
This document will guide you through installing and configuring a
virtual machine by using the widely available libvirt project tools, such as
virt-install, virsh,
virt-manager, virt-viewer, etc.
Though there are many, many tutorials and walk-throughs available for
these tools, this guide will demonstrate the necessary
virt-install and virsh commands to configure
the virtual machine.
You may install a guest Linux distribution of your choice. Any of the recent popular Linux distributions should suffice. This guide will use Fedora Rawhide because playing around with the latest bleeding-edge software is fun!
Then we will show you the necessary commands to configure the Linux guest system to be able to communicate with PBot. Commands and code snippets are sent over a virtual serial cable. We’ll show you how to set that up.
We’ll also show a few tips and tricks to help secure the virtual machine against malicious user-submitted commands.
Let’s get started.