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Today I run OSSIM in my vmware machine, and fyi, the host machine is ubuntu hardy. Installation is easy as 123 . Problem come up when OSSIM tried to change network interface mode to promiscuous on boot process. It happen because VMWare not allowed the guest machine change network interface mode for security reason. Well, security is not my concern for this venue obviously. I trus OSSIM and I want it runs on my VM. So this is what I do to make my guest machine be able to change the network interface mode;

1. Change the group access to the network device with basic command like this;
   sudo chgrp yourgroup /dev/vmnetx
   where x is the number of virtual network device you want OSSIM to be able to change the interface to promiscuous mode.
2. Give the group read/write access to the device;
   sudo chmod g+rw /dev/vmnetx
3. That is all

Pretty easy and now OSSIM can run on my VMWare with promiscuous mode enabled. I will continue to write my experience hanging out with this OSSIM  later on.