On 4/1/07, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
The VT extension is useful if you plan to run Windows as one of the guest OSs under XEN. VMware Server is suppose to benefit from it, I did not have the hardware to test it. If you plan to use VMware, you will need a base OS, vmware and guest OS. Keep the base OS as minimal as possible. You can install X and use the VMware console locally, or use VNC/RDP/X over the network. I would recommend the latter. XEN (if used from xensource) will install as the base OS. It does have a graphics console, but I have not had the change to play with it. If using the system as router/firewall, use separate physical NICs to segregate the networks.
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]
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