Show HN: BeatBox – a cybersecurity lab on your own computer (QEMU, Rust)

Category: security

Tags: virtualization, cybersecurity, qemu, rust, network-simulation

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 5, Utility: 6)

BeatBox is a desktop cybersecurity lab that runs real VMs via QEMU, letting users build networks, attack and defend machines, and manage services with snapshotting. It combines virtualization, network simulation, and service orchestration into a single Rust-based application, with a focus on not modifying user disks.

Target audience: security learners, IT students, cybersecurity enthusiasts, backend/devops engineers practicing security

Repository: https://github.com/0xthearchitect/beatbox · Rust · Apache-2.0

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