Hello,
I would like to run the eBlocker in a VMware or Docker version.
Is that possible ?
Greeting Dalle
We‘ll come up with a VM version (for Virtual Box) of eBlockerOS in May 2022 and inform via newsletter once it has been released.
Stay tuned 😉
I would like to run eBlocker as a virtual machine.
Has anyone done this?
Is it even possible?
If it is not possible, will it be possible in the future?
VM ist good, better and more simple may be a Docker-Image, to use it in a Synology DSM.
We had an internal project called "eBlocker Desktop" where we installed eBlocker in a VM succesfully. It worked in general but we had issues binding the network adapter correctly after restarts - if I remember right (I'm not a programmer).
We finally gave up on the idea to focus on a low engery "always on" device rather than a power consuming PC. But I would guess that some talented developer can take this further...
The core eBlocker code is in Java running on Linux - so it can be ported quite easily to other platforms.
Hello,
it would be fine to have an eBlocker docker image für Raspberry pi (armhf).
So it could be used without extra hardware besides other security docker containers (reverse proxy, and so on).
Thank you
Regards
Thorsten
a docker image is a nice feature 🙂
PIO
Is there any installation script or release or manual how to install eBlocker. Compiling from source seems not to be the solution. So I would like to build the image.
Regards
@knex666 As always with software development: writing documentation is not everyone's favorite. We've rather focused on getting the 2.5 release ready so far - but docu is on the list... 😉
If you'd like to join the team to contribute, we are happy to set you up on how things are bundled together. But I have to say it's pretty complex and rather for hardcore developers than for people with a basic tech background (like myself). Unfortunately there is no "make install" but deeper Chef and other component knowledge required to build an image...
Hi, I'd also like to install eBlocker on a VM, since I use an Intel NUC with Proxmox and pfSense as firewall/router solution which currently has a lot of free ressources for something like eBlocker.
That would also eliminate any bottleneck of the single ethernet connection by using virtual interfaces on that very host instead.
@Benne: Since I'm a quite experienced linux dev I'd try to setup everything by myself on a x86 debian, but I couldn't find the Chef recipies you mentioned, you use for creating the Pi image. Could you provide those? Otherwise I'll have to reverse engineer the image itself, which I do not prefer 😉
@Benne thanks for your response, I'm eagerly waiting for news then 🙂
I'm not sure yet, if I'll dig deep in the code. I first want to test eBlocker in my setup to decide if it works for me. But in general I'm the type of guy who first fixes the code himself before writing an bug report, so feel free to add me, if you like to 😉
@n0xf0x I've checked back with @bpr. Current Chef scripts also setup our internal infrastructure. This needs to be separated first before we can publish them. Currently the final eOS 2.5.6 release has highest priority.
@bpr also mentioned that a manual setup w/o the scripts isn't a big deal either. I'll open supporters forum doors for you to discuss there. 😉 😎
Yes, i think it is possible. I try to built an ISO-File from the installationfile. The attemps that I try failed at the moment. A Raspberry installation on VMWare works fine.
If I have a solution, I'm going to post it here.
I hope you can understand my english it is not so good.
May this installationguide is helpfull for try & error 🙂
https://webnist.de/wie-man-raspberry-pi-desktop-unter-virtualbox-einrichtet/
best regards
Sven