Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:17:08 -0500 Nicholas MIller wrote: > > OpenBSD is my favourite option for servers but not for nfsv4. Do you > > need file locking or can you use something like sftp (ssh file > > transfer)? > > why don't you like OpenBSD for nfs? OpenBSD only supports nfsv3. I don't thi

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Apr 4, 2012 5:17 PM, "Nicholas MIller" wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:10:12 -0400 > > Kaiting Chen wrote: > > > > > Yeah run each service as an unprivileged user and you should be fine. If > > > security is very critical than ru

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:10:12 -0400 > Kaiting Chen wrote: > > > Yeah run each service as an unprivileged user and you should be fine. If > > security is very critical than run something like SELinux or a similar RBAC > > system. > > If you do

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:10:12 -0400 Kaiting Chen wrote: > Yeah run each service as an unprivileged user and you should be fine. If > security is very critical than run something like SELinux or a similar RBAC > system. If you don't mind compiling a kernel, grsecurity and it's accompanying rbac or u

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Nicholas MIller wrote: > On Apr 3, 2012 3:59 PM, "Kaiting Chen" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Nicholas MIller > wrote: > > > > > hello > > > > > > I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my > house. I > > > am looking to a

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:59:29 -0400 Kaiting Chen wrote: > There's really no reason you need another VM for each of those services. > Make sure you have proper privilege separation and you should be fine. > --Kaiting. It would be best to use chroot or use an RBAC too to prevent priviledge escalation

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:07:55 -0500 Nicholas MIller wrote: > please correct me if I'm wrong but running each service as it's own user > without access to anything it doesn't need it's what you mean? and this > might be a stupid ? but do you agree with your statement still if I need to > use nfs rea

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Apr 3, 2012 3:59 PM, "Kaiting Chen" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Nicholas MIller wrote: > > > hello > > > > I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I > > am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. however I don't > > know if I shou

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Kaiting Chen
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Nicholas MIller wrote: > hello > > I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I > am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. however I don't > know if I should be using a separate vmachine for each service. I am more >

Re: [arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Victor Silva
Take a look on XenCenter. It will make easier to divide services in a per machine basis. Em 3 de abril de 2012 17:56, Nicholas MIller escreveu: > hello > > I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I > am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. howe

[arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Nicholas MIller
hello I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. however I don't know if I should be using a separate vmachine for each service. I am more concerned about security than resource use. however the publicly r

[arch-general] how many virtual machines

2012-04-03 Thread Nicholas MIller
hello I currently host my personal webpage from a virtual machine at my house. I am looking to add a mailserver as well as an irc server. however I don't know if I should be using a separate vmachine for each service. I am more concerned about security than resource use. however the publicly r