On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:43 +0300, Lars Noodén <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/15/12 9:44 PM, Wesley PA4WDH wrote: >> ... The host will be Gentoo, i haven't decided about the guest yet. >> It seems a bit overkill to use gentoo there too. The workload would >> be email with an MTA, Secure IMAP, Webmail and maybe some spam >> filtering. The number of emails would be somewhere in the 10s per day >> or so, so i guess that won't be a problem. My main question would be >> if it's responsive enough to be usable. Does anyone have any >> experience with virtualisation on an atom ? > > You'll burn lots of scarce resources just running the virtualization > itself. The overhead is not small. Since these services are designed > to run together smoothly on the same machine, you might consider taking > the performance boost and running them all without virtualization. >
I would consider Linux Containers (LXC). It is not 'full virtualization', but it is lightweight and would give enough separation for what you are looking for... -- Philippe _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
