Over the last few years I spent very little on hardware, so now I took a big jump and upgraded my lowly P3 old Linux server into something more like a propper workstation. an intel E6600 processor with Core2 Duo and 2 gig ram. the questions are:
a. do I gain anything at all by reinstalling my system as a 64 bit one? to the best of my knowledge there will be no change in speed, I don't have over 4 gigs of RAM and certainly no intention of running processes of more than a few hundred megs in size. b. I just noticed it has the much talked-about VT extensions, would it be easy for me then to keep the system as a router/firewall and a desktop and securely also install a second "slave" VM to run other OSs, or do I need a lean Xen "base/visor" and the desktop should not run on it? Is this worth the headache or should I look into VirtualBox or VMWarePlayer instead? I remember there were some shortcuts in network security wehn Xen is activated, so maybe it's safer not to use it if the machine is meant to be a firewall as well. those are the two main things at the moment I guess :-) -- Curse of the bambino Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
